The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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Page 97
... affected by particular qual- ities in the person he admires , the im- pressions of which are too minute and deli- cate to be substantiated in language . The following very solemn and affecting prayer was found after Dr. Johnson's de ...
... affected by particular qual- ities in the person he admires , the im- pressions of which are too minute and deli- cate to be substantiated in language . The following very solemn and affecting prayer was found after Dr. Johnson's de ...
Page 186
... affected Johnson's style and manner of conversation , and , when he had uttered , as he often would , a laboured sentence , so tumid as to be scarce intelligible , would ask , if that was not truly Johnsonian ; yet he loved not Johnson ...
... affected Johnson's style and manner of conversation , and , when he had uttered , as he often would , a laboured sentence , so tumid as to be scarce intelligible , would ask , if that was not truly Johnsonian ; yet he loved not Johnson ...
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... affected by the cold , scolded me , as if my shivering had been a paltry effemina- cy , saying , " Why do you shiver ? " Sir William Scott2 , of the commons , told me , that when he complained of a head - ache in the post - chaise , as ...
... affected by the cold , scolded me , as if my shivering had been a paltry effemina- cy , saying , " Why do you shiver ? " Sir William Scott2 , of the commons , told me , that when he complained of a head - ache in the post - chaise , as ...
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