The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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... soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with another hundred guineas . NICHOLS . assimilated to the lady in Waller , who could impress B 2 ETAT . 72 . 3 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with another hundred guineas . NICHOLS . assimilated to the lady in Waller , who could impress B 2 ETAT . 72 . 3 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... lady in Waller , who could impress with " love at first sight : " " " Some other nymphs with colours faint , And pencil slow , may Cupid paint , And a weak heart in time destroy ; She has a stamp , and prints the boy . " That he ...
... lady in Waller , who could impress with " love at first sight : " " " Some other nymphs with colours faint , And pencil slow , may Cupid paint , And a weak heart in time destroy ; She has a stamp , and prints the boy . " That he ...
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... Lady Dorothea Primrose , who died at a great age , I think in 1768 , and had been well acquainted with Steele , told him the same story . M. - Lady Dorothea was the sixth and youngest daughter of the first Earl of Roseberry , but she ...
... Lady Dorothea Primrose , who died at a great age , I think in 1768 , and had been well acquainted with Steele , told him the same story . M. - Lady Dorothea was the sixth and youngest daughter of the first Earl of Roseberry , but she ...
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... lady , that , in her opinion , Johnson was " a very seducing man . " Disadvantages of person and manner may be forgotten , where intellectual pleasure is communicated to a susceptible mind ; and that Johnson was capable of feeling the ...
... lady , that , in her opinion , Johnson was " a very seducing man . " Disadvantages of person and manner may be forgotten , where intellectual pleasure is communicated to a susceptible mind ; and that Johnson was capable of feeling the ...
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... ladies , and could make himself very agreeable to them when he chose it : Sir Joshua Reynolds agreed with me that he ... lady may be vain when she can turn a wolf - dog into a lap - dog . " The election for Ayrshire , my own county , was ...
... ladies , and could make himself very agreeable to them when he chose it : Sir Joshua Reynolds agreed with me that he ... lady may be vain when she can turn a wolf - dog into a lap - dog . " The election for Ayrshire , my own county , was ...
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