The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent & Company, 1907 - Authors, English |
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... telling why , because his real opinion is then required . Or , if he has other daughters who know of her frailty , he ... tell us the faults of his daughter or of himself . A man who has debauched his friend's daughter is not obliged to ...
... telling why , because his real opinion is then required . Or , if he has other daughters who know of her frailty , he ... tell us the faults of his daughter or of himself . A man who has debauched his friend's daughter is not obliged to ...
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... tell , but what they themselves have seen ? Of the past , or the invisible , they can tell nothing . The inhabitants of Otaheité and New Zealand are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other people ...
... tell , but what they themselves have seen ? Of the past , or the invisible , they can tell nothing . The inhabitants of Otaheité and New Zealand are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other people ...
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... tell you , with a melancholy face , how many builders are in gaol . It is plain they are in gaol , not for building ; for rents are not fallen . - A man gives half a guinea for a dish of green peas . How much gardening does 1 It may be ...
... tell you , with a melancholy face , how many builders are in gaol . It is plain they are in gaol , not for building ; for rents are not fallen . - A man gives half a guinea for a dish of green peas . How much gardening does 1 It may be ...
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... tell no more but ' That he remembered him a decent old man , arbiter of critical disputes at Will's . ' You are to consider that Cibber was then at a great distance from Dryden , had perhaps one leg only in the room , and durst not draw ...
... tell no more but ' That he remembered him a decent old man , arbiter of critical disputes at Will's . ' You are to consider that Cibber was then at a great distance from Dryden , had perhaps one leg only in the room , and durst not draw ...
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... tell Mrs. Williams how much he had been pleased with Mr. Wilkes's company , and what an agreeable day he had passed . I talked a good deal to him of the celebrated Margaret Caroline Rudd , whom I had visited , induced by the fame of her ...
... tell Mrs. Williams how much he had been pleased with Mr. Wilkes's company , and what an agreeable day he had passed . I talked a good deal to him of the celebrated Margaret Caroline Rudd , whom I had visited , induced by the fame of her ...
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Page 115 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 536 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 483 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Page 359 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 251 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men : but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 366 - Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, "that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Page 200 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Page 529 - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known...
Page 365 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how.