The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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Page 195
... death , Mr. Francis Barber , his faithful servant , and residuary legatee , offered this memorial of tenderness to Mrs. Lucy Porter , Mrs. Johnson's daughter ; but she having declined to accept of it , he had it enamelled as a mourning ...
... death , Mr. Francis Barber , his faithful servant , and residuary legatee , offered this memorial of tenderness to Mrs. Lucy Porter , Mrs. Johnson's daughter ; but she having declined to accept of it , he had it enamelled as a mourning ...
Page 197
... death of his wife were severe , beyond what are commonly endured , I have no doubt , from the information of many who were then about him , to none of whom I give more credit than to Mr. Francis Barber , his faithful negro servant ...
... death of his wife were severe , beyond what are commonly endured , I have no doubt , from the information of many who were then about him , to none of whom I give more credit than to Mr. Francis Barber , his faithful negro servant ...
Page 272
... death , is , that we think he might have lived longer ; yet this cause of grief is common to many other kinds of death , which are not so passionately bewailed . The truth is , that every death is violent , which is the effect of ...
... death , is , that we think he might have lived longer ; yet this cause of grief is common to many other kinds of death , which are not so passionately bewailed . The truth is , that every death is violent , which is the effect of ...
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