The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... Italy , Johnson said , sarcastically , " It seems , Sir , you have kept very good company abroad , -Rousseau and Wilkes ! " Thinking it enough to defend one at a time , I said nothing as to my gay friend , but ÆT . 57 . 27 BOSWELL'S ...
... Italy , Johnson said , sarcastically , " It seems , Sir , you have kept very good company abroad , -Rousseau and Wilkes ! " Thinking it enough to defend one at a time , I said nothing as to my gay friend , but ÆT . 57 . 27 BOSWELL'S ...
Page 40
... Italian friend Baretti ; where , talking of the monastic life , you say you do not wonder that serious men should put themselves under the pro- tection of a religious order , when they have found how unable they are to take care of ...
... Italian friend Baretti ; where , talking of the monastic life , you say you do not wonder that serious men should put themselves under the pro- tection of a religious order , when they have found how unable they are to take care of ...
Page 67
... Italy , seen the experiment of placing a scorpion within a circle of burning coals ; that it ran round and round in extreme pain ; and finding no way to escape , retired to the centre , and , like a true Stoic philosopher , darted its ...
... Italy , seen the experiment of placing a scorpion within a circle of burning coals ; that it ran round and round in extreme pain ; and finding no way to escape , retired to the centre , and , like a true Stoic philosopher , darted its ...
Page 69
... Italy is a very entertaining book ; and , Sir , I know no man who carries his head higher in conversation than Baretti . There are strong powers in his mind . He has not , indeed , many hooks ; but with what hooks he has , he grapples ...
... Italy is a very entertaining book ; and , Sir , I know no man who carries his head higher in conversation than Baretti . There are strong powers in his mind . He has not , indeed , many hooks ; but with what hooks he has , he grapples ...
Page 87
... Italian , and Dr. Johnson English , and understood one another very well , with a little aid of interpretation from me , in which I compared myself to an isthmus which joins two great continents . Upon Johnson's approach , the General ...
... Italian , and Dr. Johnson English , and understood one another very well , with a little aid of interpretation from me , in which I compared myself to an isthmus which joins two great continents . Upon Johnson's approach , the General ...
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