The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... admirably . EDWARDS . " Sir , I re- member you would not let us say prodigious at college . For even then , Sir ( turning to me ) , he was delicate in language , and we all feared him . " 1 JOHNSON ( to Edwards ) . " From your having ...
... admirably . EDWARDS . " Sir , I re- member you would not let us say prodigious at college . For even then , Sir ( turning to me ) , he was delicate in language , and we all feared him . " 1 JOHNSON ( to Edwards ) . " From your having ...
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... admirable ; and though he was strangely unwilling to allow to that extraordinary man the talent of wit , ' he also laughed with 1 See this question fully investigated in the notes upon the " Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " antè ...
... admirable ; and though he was strangely unwilling to allow to that extraordinary man the talent of wit , ' he also laughed with 1 See this question fully investigated in the notes upon the " Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " antè ...
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... admirable in this ; but , in order to mark the characters which he draws , he overcharges them , and gives people more than they really have , whether of good or bad . " No sooner did he , of whom we had been thus talking so easily ...
... admirable in this ; but , in order to mark the characters which he draws , he overcharges them , and gives people more than they really have , whether of good or bad . " No sooner did he , of whom we had been thus talking so easily ...
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... the barbarity of the punish- ment of which he cites this as an unparalleled example . - C . • Johnson had an extraordinary admiration of this lady , notwithstanding she was a violent you dined at Lichfield . — I shall be at.
... the barbarity of the punish- ment of which he cites this as an unparalleled example . - C . • Johnson had an extraordinary admiration of this lady , notwithstanding she was a violent you dined at Lichfield . — I shall be at.
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... admirable speech in the House of Commons , which was highly ap plauded , but which he afterwards perceived might have been bet 1 In Mr. Horne Tooke's enlargement of that “ Letter , " which he has since published with the title of " Exɛa ...
... admirable speech in the House of Commons , which was highly ap plauded , but which he afterwards perceived might have been bet 1 In Mr. Horne Tooke's enlargement of that “ Letter , " which he has since published with the title of " Exɛa ...
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