The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... conversation . There is no good in letting the French have a superiority over you every word you speak . Baretti was sometimes displeased with us for not liking the French . " MISS REY- NOLDS . " Perhaps he had a kind of partiali- ty ...
... conversation . There is no good in letting the French have a superiority over you every word you speak . Baretti was sometimes displeased with us for not liking the French . " MISS REY- NOLDS . " Perhaps he had a kind of partiali- ty ...
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... conversation . [ The conversation at Dr. Douglas's was at first mostly in Life , p French . Johnson , though thorough- 91 . ly versed in that language , and a professed admirer of Boileau and La Bruyere , did not understand its ...
... conversation . [ The conversation at Dr. Douglas's was at first mostly in Life , p French . Johnson , though thorough- 91 . ly versed in that language , and a professed admirer of Boileau and La Bruyere , did not understand its ...
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... conversation ; for it was very remarkable of Johnson , that the presence of a stranger had no restraint upon his talk . I observed that Garrick , who was about to quit the stage , would soon have an easier life . JOHNSON . " I doubt ...
... conversation ; for it was very remarkable of Johnson , that the presence of a stranger had no restraint upon his talk . I observed that Garrick , who was about to quit the stage , would soon have an easier life . JOHNSON . " I doubt ...
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... conversation , no fair exertion of mind amongst them , if the young men are by ; for a man who has a character does not choose to stake it in their presence . " BOSWELL . " But , sir , may there not be very good conversation without a ...
... conversation , no fair exertion of mind amongst them , if the young men are by ; for a man who has a character does not choose to stake it in their presence . " BOSWELL . " But , sir , may there not be very good conversation without a ...
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... conversation . “ A mill that goes with- out grist , " said he , " is as good a compan- ion as such creatures . " ] " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round , Where'er his stages may have been , May sigh to think he still has found The ...
... conversation . “ A mill that goes with- out grist , " said he , " is as good a compan- ion as such creatures . " ] " Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round , Where'er his stages may have been , May sigh to think he still has found The ...
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