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 113
... once addressed your lordship in publick , I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess . I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected , be it ever so ...
... once addressed your lordship in publick , I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess . I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected , be it ever so ...
Page 182
... 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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... once at the exhibition of the Fantocci- ni in London , when those who sat next him observed with what dexterity a puppet was made to toss a pike , he could not bear that it should have such praise , and exclaimed with some warmth ...
... once at the exhibition of the Fantocci- ni in London , when those who sat next him observed with what dexterity a puppet was made to toss a pike , he could not bear that it should have such praise , and exclaimed with some warmth ...
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