The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... remember our drinking to- gether at an alehouse near Pembroke - gate ? At that time , you told me of the Eton boy , who , when verses on our Saviour's turning water into wine were prescribed as an exercise , brought up a single line ...
... remember our drinking to- gether at an alehouse near Pembroke - gate ? At that time , you told me of the Eton boy , who , when verses on our Saviour's turning water into wine were prescribed as an exercise , brought up a single line ...
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... remember Swift , in one of 999 · " 6 his letters to Pope , says , ' I intend to come over , that we may meet once more ; and when we must part , it is what happens to all human beings . ' BOSWELL . " The hope that we shall see our ...
... remember Swift , in one of 999 · " 6 his letters to Pope , says , ' I intend to come over , that we may meet once more ; and when we must part , it is what happens to all human beings . ' BOSWELL . " The hope that we shall see our ...
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... remember no more of it than two particulars : one , th . t he strenuously opposed an argument by Sir Joshua , that virtue was preferable to vice , considering this life only ; and that a man would be virtuous were it only to preserve ...
... remember no more of it than two particulars : one , th . t he strenuously opposed an argument by Sir Joshua , that virtue was preferable to vice , considering this life only ; and that a man would be virtuous were it only to preserve ...
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... remember how pleasing it was , when I received a letter from him at Inverary , upon our first return to civilized living after our Hebri- dean journey ? I shall always remember him with affection as well as admira- tion . " On Saturday ...
... remember how pleasing it was , when I received a letter from him at Inverary , upon our first return to civilized living after our Hebri- dean journey ? I shall always remember him with affection as well as admira- tion . " On Saturday ...
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... remember a passage in Goldsmith's ' Vicar of Wakefield , ' which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge . ' I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing . ' " BOSWELL . " That was a fine passage . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir : there was ...
... remember a passage in Goldsmith's ' Vicar of Wakefield , ' which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge . ' I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing . ' " BOSWELL . " That was a fine passage . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir : there was ...
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