The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... young woman of Leek , in Staffordshire , while he served his apprenticeship there , conceived a violent passion for him ; and though it met with no favourable return followed him to Lichfield , where she took lodgings opposite to the ...
... young woman of Leek , in Staffordshire , while he served his apprenticeship there , conceived a violent passion for him ; and though it met with no favourable return followed him to Lichfield , where she took lodgings opposite to the ...
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... young as he was , he believed he had caught the public spirit and zeal for Sacheverel , and would have stayed for ever in the church , satisfied with beholding him . " Nor can I omit a little instance of that jealous inde- pendence of ...
... young as he was , he believed he had caught the public spirit and zeal for Sacheverel , and would have stayed for ever in the church , satisfied with beholding him . " Nor can I omit a little instance of that jealous inde- pendence of ...
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... Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or king's evil , which disfigured a countenance naturally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes ...
... Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the scrofula , or king's evil , which disfigured a countenance naturally well formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes ...
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... young children in Lichfield . He told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a Bible in that character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in ...
... young children in Lichfield . He told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a Bible in that character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in ...
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... young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved , owing to their mother's strict discipline and severe correction , he exclaimed , in one of Shakespeare's lines a little varied , 1 " Rod , I will honour thee for this thy ...
... young ladies in Lincolnshire who were remarkably well behaved , owing to their mother's strict discipline and severe correction , he exclaimed , in one of Shakespeare's lines a little varied , 1 " Rod , I will honour thee for this thy ...
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