The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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... wish to see you , and am ordered by the lady of this house to invite you hither . Whether you can come or not , I shall not have any occasion of writ- ing to you again before your marriage , and therefore tell you now , that with great ...
... wish to see you , and am ordered by the lady of this house to invite you hither . Whether you can come or not , I shall not have any occasion of writ- ing to you again before your marriage , and therefore tell you now , that with great ...
Page 133
... wish to please the chief magistrate ! " GOLDSMITH . " I do wish to please him . I remember a line in Dryden , - ' And every poet is the monarch's friend . ' 66 and the friend of Johnson's , who had become too much the " echo " of the ...
... wish to please the chief magistrate ! " GOLDSMITH . " I do wish to please him . I remember a line in Dryden , - ' And every poet is the monarch's friend . ' 66 and the friend of Johnson's , who had become too much the " echo " of the ...
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... wish to get in and shine . Finding himself excluded , he had taken his hat to go away , but remained for some time with it in his hand , like a gamester , who , at the close of a long night , lingers for a little while , to see if he ...
... wish to get in and shine . Finding himself excluded , he had taken his hat to go away , but remained for some time with it in his hand , like a gamester , who , at the close of a long night , lingers for a little while , to see if he ...
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