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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... body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years old , having got the play of Hamlet in his hand , and reading it quietly in his father's kitchen , he kept on steadily enough , till , coming to the ghost scene , he ...
... body has heard as well as I : how , when he was about nine years old , having got the play of Hamlet in his hand , and reading it quietly in his father's kitchen , he kept on steadily enough , till , coming to the ghost scene , he ...
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... body wanted loyalty : But books to Cambridge gave , as , well discerning , That that right loyal body wanted learning . " Which , says Sir William , might well be answered thus : - - " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse , For ...
... body wanted loyalty : But books to Cambridge gave , as , well discerning , That that right loyal body wanted learning . " Which , says Sir William , might well be answered thus : - - " The king to Oxford sent his troop of horse , For ...
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... body , and should tell him , Young man , there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall , before you taste of death , show itself equal to the ...
... body , and should tell him , Young man , there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall , before you taste of death , show itself equal to the ...
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... body , as we call it . " 23. Style of Swift . A friend was praising the style of Dr. Swift ; Mr. Johnson did not find himself in the humour to agree with him the critic was driven from one of his per- formances to the other . At length ...
... body , as we call it . " 23. Style of Swift . A friend was praising the style of Dr. Swift ; Mr. Johnson did not find himself in the humour to agree with him the critic was driven from one of his per- formances to the other . At length ...
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... body's mind bear this eternal microscope that you place upon your own so ? " I never , " replied he , 66 saw one that would , except that of my dear Miss Reynolds and hers is very near to purity itself . " Of slighter evils , and ...
... body's mind bear this eternal microscope that you place upon your own so ? " I never , " replied he , 66 saw one that would , except that of my dear Miss Reynolds and hers is very near to purity itself . " Of slighter evils , 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