The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Harper, 1859 |
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... manner , and at his dress , which he ob- stinately continued exactly as in London ; -his brown clothes , black ... manners re- sembled the Italians . " JOHNSON . " No. He was the showman , and we did not like his show ; that was all ...
... manner , and at his dress , which he ob- stinately continued exactly as in London ; -his brown clothes , black ... manners re- sembled the Italians . " JOHNSON . " No. He was the showman , and we did not like his show ; that was all ...
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... manner , and the want of more examples to enliven , is one of the most nervous , most perspicuous , most concise , most harmonious prose wri- ters I know . A learned diction improves by time . " Piozzi , p . 130 . In the afternoon , as ...
... manner , and the want of more examples to enliven , is one of the most nervous , most perspicuous , most concise , most harmonious prose wri- ters I know . A learned diction improves by time . " Piozzi , p . 130 . In the afternoon , as ...
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... manner , periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands : another attempt to make her understand | the father's estate. " Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race A countless clan despoil the lowland cane . ' Johnson said ...
... manner , periphrastically exhibited in his poem as it now stands : another attempt to make her understand | the father's estate. " Nor with less waste the whisker'd vermin race A countless clan despoil the lowland cane . ' Johnson said ...
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... manners , and the spiritual - mindedness , of the quakers ; and talking with Mr. Lloyd , I observed , that the essential ... manner ; and the good quakers had the advantage of him ; for he had read negligently , and had not observed that ...
... manners , and the spiritual - mindedness , of the quakers ; and talking with Mr. Lloyd , I observed , that the essential ... manner ; and the good quakers had the advantage of him ; for he had read negligently , and had not observed that ...
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... manner . She had never been in London . Her brother , a captain in the navy , had left her a fortune of ten thousand pounds ; about a third of which she had laid out in building a stately house , and making a handsome garden , in an ...
... manner . She had never been in London . Her brother , a captain in the navy , had left her a fortune of ten thousand pounds ; about a third of which she had laid out in building a stately house , and making a handsome garden , in an ...
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