The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... heard he was the greatest man in England , ―next to Lord Mansfield . " Aye , Sir , ( said he , ) the exception defined the idea . A Scotchman could go no farther : The force of Nature could no farther go . " " Lady Miller's collection ...
... heard he was the greatest man in England , ―next to Lord Mansfield . " Aye , Sir , ( said he , ) the exception defined the idea . A Scotchman could go no farther : The force of Nature could no farther go . " " Lady Miller's collection ...
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... heard any man speak of any future enjoyment with such contortions of delight as he exhibited when he talked of eating the young ones . On the margin of her copy Mrs. Piozzi writes that this was Hawkins Browne . Sidney Smith's grotesque ...
... heard any man speak of any future enjoyment with such contortions of delight as he exhibited when he talked of eating the young ones . On the margin of her copy Mrs. Piozzi writes that this was Hawkins Browne . Sidney Smith's grotesque ...
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... heard he was dead , went directly back again to Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to dis- appoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have wished to have been a hundred miles off ...
... heard he was dead , went directly back again to Italy . " JOHNSON . " I should not have wished to be dead to dis- appoint Campbell , had he been so foolish as you represent him ; but I should have wished to have been a hundred miles off ...
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... heard at intervals , which coming from him who , by those who did not know him , had been so often assimilated to that ferocious animal , while we who were sitting around could hardly stifle laughter , produced a very ludicrous effect ...
... heard at intervals , which coming from him who , by those who did not know him , had been so often assimilated to that ferocious animal , while we who were sitting around could hardly stifle laughter , produced a very ludicrous effect ...
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... heard of Goldsmith . It is difficult to get literary fame , and it is every day growing more difficult . Ah , Sir , that should make a man think of securing happiness in another world , which all who try sincerely for it may attain . In ...
... heard of Goldsmith . It is difficult to get literary fame , and it is every day growing more difficult . Ah , Sir , that should make a man think of securing happiness in another world , which all who try sincerely for it may attain . In ...
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