The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 4H. G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... passed away , and no other memorial of this great and good man shall remain but the following Journal , ' the other anecdotes and letters preserved by his friends , and those incomparable works which have for many years been in the ...
... passed away , and no other memorial of this great and good man shall remain but the following Journal , ' the other anecdotes and letters preserved by his friends , and those incomparable works which have for many years been in the ...
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... passed with him . I have preserved some enter- taining and interesting memoirs of him , particularly when he knew himself to be dying , which I may some time or other communicate to the world . I shall not , however , extol him so very ...
... passed with him . I have preserved some enter- taining and interesting memoirs of him , particularly when he knew himself to be dying , which I may some time or other communicate to the world . I shall not , however , extol him so very ...
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... passed , except that Dr. Johnson displayed another of his heterodox opinions a contempt of tragic acting . He said , " The action of all players in tragedy is bad . It should be a man's study to repress those signs of emotion and ...
... passed , except that Dr. Johnson displayed another of his heterodox opinions a contempt of tragic acting . He said , " The action of all players in tragedy is bad . It should be a man's study to repress those signs of emotion and ...
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... passed to prevent persecution for what was not witchcraft . Why it ceased we cannot ( 1 ) Lord Stowell recollects that Johnson was treated by the Scottish literati with a degree of deference bordering on pu- sillanimity ; but he excepts ...
... passed to prevent persecution for what was not witchcraft . Why it ceased we cannot ( 1 ) Lord Stowell recollects that Johnson was treated by the Scottish literati with a degree of deference bordering on pu- sillanimity ; but he excepts ...
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... passed . " Dr. Johnson thought it unnecessary to put him- self to the additional expense of bringing with him Francis Barber , his faithful black servant ; so we were attended only by my man , Joseph Ritter ( 1 ) , a Bohemian , a fine ...
... passed . " Dr. Johnson thought it unnecessary to put him- self to the additional expense of bringing with him Francis Barber , his faithful black servant ; so we were attended only by my man , Joseph Ritter ( 1 ) , a Bohemian , a fine ...
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