The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 9Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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... believe ; and I have heard him descant upon the age when people were received , and when rejected , in the schools once held for that brutal amusement , much to the admiration of those who had no expectation of his skill in such matters ...
... believe ; and I have heard him descant upon the age when people were received , and when rejected , in the schools once held for that brutal amusement , much to the admiration of those who had no expectation of his skill in such matters ...
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... believe it ? Fortunate man , he has lived to see it ! Fortunate , indeed , if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect , and cloud the setting of his day ! " Pari Hist . vol . xviii . p . 487. ] and these men , now so honest ...
... believe it ? Fortunate man , he has lived to see it ! Fortunate , indeed , if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect , and cloud the setting of his day ! " Pari Hist . vol . xviii . p . 487. ] and these men , now so honest ...
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... believe , and with some merry malice . A serious translation of the same lines , which I think are from Euripides , may be found in " Burney's History of Music . " Here are the burlesque ones : - " Err shall they not , who resolute ...
... believe , and with some merry malice . A serious translation of the same lines , which I think are from Euripides , may be found in " Burney's History of Music . " Here are the burlesque ones : - " Err shall they not , who resolute ...
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... believe , and retained his faculties a still shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and profound learning , but little skilled in the knowledge of life or manners , and died without having ever enjoyed the re- putation he so justly ...
... believe , and retained his faculties a still shorter time . He was a man of strict piety and profound learning , but little skilled in the knowledge of life or manners , and died without having ever enjoyed the re- putation he so justly ...
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... believe , either in the climate or the company . " The Abbé Raynal probably remembers that , being at the house of a common friend in London , the master of it approached Johnson with that gentleman so much celebrated in his hand , and ...
... believe , either in the climate or the company . " The Abbé Raynal probably remembers that , being at the house of a common friend in London , the master of it approached Johnson with that gentleman so much celebrated in his hand , and ...
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Common terms and phrases
acquaintance ANECDOTES OF DR answer antè appeared asked believe better Bolt Court Boswell Brocklesby Burke Burney called character conversation David Garrick dear death delight desired dinner Doctor dress Edmund Burke expressed eyes favour favourite fear Frank Frank Barber Garrick gentleman give hand Hawkins hear heard honour Hoole hope human Jeremiah Markland kind knew lady Langton laugh learning Lichfield lived look Lord loved Lucy Porter Madam manner Markland mentioned mind morning Nathaniel Hodges nature never observed occasion once opinion pain Percy perhaps person pleased pleasure Poets praise recollect remember repeated replied Samuel Johnson Sastres says Johnson seemed Shakspeare Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds speak spoke story Strahan Streatham suppose sure talk tell thing thought Thrale tion told took verses virtue wish words write young