The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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... lady of quality , and eager to show himself a man of gallantry , was hurrying down the stair - case in violent agitation . He overtook us before we reached the Temple - gate , and , brushing in between me and Madame de Boufflers ...
... lady of quality , and eager to show himself a man of gallantry , was hurrying down the stair - case in violent agitation . He overtook us before we reached the Temple - gate , and , brushing in between me and Madame de Boufflers ...
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... Lady Sydney Beauclerk's disgust , he once made to his friends to take — that is , rent- - Cuper's , or ( more vulgarly ) Cupid's , Gardens , now traversed by the Waterloo Bridge Road , -it would be too much to assume he had any ...
... Lady Sydney Beauclerk's disgust , he once made to his friends to take — that is , rent- - Cuper's , or ( more vulgarly ) Cupid's , Gardens , now traversed by the Waterloo Bridge Road , -it would be too much to assume he had any ...
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... lady paraphrased thus : - 99 " The social club , the lonely tower , Far better suit thy midnight hour ; Let each according to his power In worth or wisdom shine ! " Her imitation is the more notable in that , unlike her original , it ...
... lady paraphrased thus : - 99 " The social club , the lonely tower , Far better suit thy midnight hour ; Let each according to his power In worth or wisdom shine ! " Her imitation is the more notable in that , unlike her original , it ...
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... Lady Craven , " whose play of The Sleep Walker Walpole printed at the Strawberry Hill Press ; now at General Paoli's in South Audley Street , where Goldsmith is also of the party , and receives a notable compliment from the Corsican ...
... Lady Craven , " whose play of The Sleep Walker Walpole printed at the Strawberry Hill Press ; now at General Paoli's in South Audley Street , where Goldsmith is also of the party , and receives a notable compliment from the Corsican ...
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... ladies from Staffordshire who came to consult him about turning Methodists , a subject one would scarcely expect to find chosen for reproduction by the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti . At the Mitre , too , it was , that Goldsmith ...
... ladies from Staffordshire who came to consult him about turning Methodists , a subject one would scarcely expect to find chosen for reproduction by the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti . At the Mitre , too , it was , that Goldsmith ...
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