The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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Page xi
... talk , everything was second edition " ; and his visitor found it impossible to argue with him , he was " so sententious and so knowing . " From Inner Temple Lane , Johnson migrated to No. 7 , Johnson's Court , where , in 1775 , he ...
... talk , everything was second edition " ; and his visitor found it impossible to argue with him , he was " so sententious and so knowing . " From Inner Temple Lane , Johnson migrated to No. 7 , Johnson's Court , where , in 1775 , he ...
Page xiv
... talks of its " ennui , " and Fanny Burney of its " solemnity . " Miss Evelina Anville found that she could not as gay and thoughtless " at the Pantheon as at the Chelsea garden . be 66 There was a humbler Pantheon in the Spa Fields at ...
... talks of its " ennui , " and Fanny Burney of its " solemnity . " Miss Evelina Anville found that she could not as gay and thoughtless " at the Pantheon as at the Chelsea garden . be 66 There was a humbler Pantheon in the Spa Fields at ...
Page xvii
... probably the third of the name , since there was talk of Edwards's Canons of Criticism , which was only published under that title in 1748 , when Jacob the First b and Jacob the Second had been gathered to their fathers. INTRODUCTION xvii.
... probably the third of the name , since there was talk of Edwards's Canons of Criticism , which was only published under that title in 1748 , when Jacob the First b and Jacob the Second had been gathered to their fathers. INTRODUCTION xvii.
Page xxiii
... talk , from his notes , must have been excellent , digressing from Gray and Goldsmith to ghosts and other themes , which ( with the wine ) and " the orthodox high - church sound of the MITRE , " produced in Boswell " a variety of ...
... talk , from his notes , must have been excellent , digressing from Gray and Goldsmith to ghosts and other themes , which ( with the wine ) and " the orthodox high - church sound of the MITRE , " produced in Boswell " a variety of ...
Page xxxv
... from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his dis- course at other periods had been collected with the same XXXV.
... from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the good fortune to be in his company ; and , without doubt , if his dis- course at other periods had been collected with the same XXXV.
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