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 44
... once of his being much dis- tinguished at school , he told me : " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one , but such a one is as good a scholar as Johnson ...
... once of his being much dis- tinguished at school , he told me : " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one , but such a one is as good a scholar as Johnson ...
Page 240
... once asked him how he came to define Pastern the knee of a horse : instead of making an elaborate defence , as she expected , he at once answered , " Ignorance , madam , pure ignorance . " His definition of Network [ " anything ...
... once asked him how he came to define Pastern the knee of a horse : instead of making an elaborate defence , as she expected , he at once answered , " Ignorance , madam , pure ignorance . " His definition of Network [ " anything ...
Page 322
... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
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