The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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Page 44
... wonderful abilities ; but exclaimed , " Is he like Burke , who winds into a subject like a serpent ? " " But , " said I , " Johnson is the Hercules who strangled serpents in his cradle . " I dined with Dr. Johnson at General Paoli's ...
... wonderful abilities ; but exclaimed , " Is he like Burke , who winds into a subject like a serpent ? " " But , " said I , " Johnson is the Hercules who strangled serpents in his cradle . " I dined with Dr. Johnson at General Paoli's ...
Page 45
... wonderful deed : he'll call up the landlord of the first inn on the road ; and , after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life , will tell him that he should not delay making his will ; 1 Langton . This affair of ...
... wonderful deed : he'll call up the landlord of the first inn on the road ; and , after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life , will tell him that he should not delay making his will ; 1 Langton . This affair of ...
Page 93
... wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas , and presented its author with a gold medal . Some years ago , at a coffee - house in Oxford , I called to him , ' Mr. Sheridan , Mr. Sheridan , how came you to give a gold medal to Home ...
... wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas , and presented its author with a gold medal . Some years ago , at a coffee - house in Oxford , I called to him , ' Mr. Sheridan , Mr. Sheridan , how came you to give a gold medal to Home ...
Page 97
... wonderful that he has been able to write such variety of them . " " " At Mr. Beauclerk's , where I supped , was Mr ... wonderfully free from that nationality : but so it happens , that you employ the only Scotch shoe- black in London ...
... wonderful that he has been able to write such variety of them . " " " At Mr. Beauclerk's , where I supped , was Mr ... wonderfully free from that nationality : but so it happens , that you employ the only Scotch shoe- black in London ...
Page 109
... wonderful that a man , who for forty years had lived with the great and witty , should have acquired so ill the talents of conversation : and he had but half to furnish ; for one half of what he said was oaths . " He , however , allowed ...
... wonderful that a man , who for forty years had lived with the great and witty , should have acquired so ill the talents of conversation : and he had but half to furnish ; for one half of what he said was oaths . " He , however , allowed ...
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