Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., Volume 2J.M.Dent, 1927 |
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... humour : for , it seems , when he had got to Mr. Thrale's , he found the coach was at the door waiting to carry Mrs. and Miss Thrale , and Signor Baretti , their Italian master , to Bath . This was not showing the attention which might ...
... humour : for , it seems , when he had got to Mr. Thrale's , he found the coach was at the door waiting to carry Mrs. and Miss Thrale , and Signor Baretti , their Italian master , to Bath . This was not showing the attention which might ...
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... humour with which those of different sects disputed with each other . JOHNSON . " Sir , they disputed with good humour , because they were not in earnest as to religion . Had the ancients been serious in their belief , we should not ...
... humour with which those of different sects disputed with each other . JOHNSON . " Sir , they disputed with good humour , because they were not in earnest as to religion . Had the ancients been serious in their belief , we should not ...
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... humour upon a subject in which he is not interested . I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man's son being hanged ; but if a man zealously enforces the prob- ability that my own son will be hanged , I shall ...
... humour upon a subject in which he is not interested . I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man's son being hanged ; but if a man zealously enforces the prob- ability that my own son will be hanged , I shall ...
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... humour in verse , and yet no poetry . ' Hudibras ' has a pro- fusion of these ; yet it is not to be reckoned a poem . Spleen , ' in Dodsley's collection , on which you say he chiefly rested , is not poetry . " BOSWELL . " Does not ...
... humour in verse , and yet no poetry . ' Hudibras ' has a pro- fusion of these ; yet it is not to be reckoned a poem . Spleen , ' in Dodsley's collection , on which you say he chiefly rested , is not poetry . " BOSWELL . " Does not ...
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... humour , or some of the company who are not capable of such conversation , are left out , and feel themselves uneasy . It was for this reason Sir Robert Walpole said , he always talked bawdy at his table , because in that all could join ...
... humour , or some of the company who are not capable of such conversation , are left out , and feel themselves uneasy . It was for this reason Sir Robert Walpole said , he always talked bawdy at his table , because in that all could join ...
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