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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... common forms of common life . It is surely no dispraise to an oak that it does not bear jessamine ; and he who should plant honey- suckle round Trajan's column , would not be thought to adorn , but to disgrace it . When I have said ...
... common forms of common life . It is surely no dispraise to an oak that it does not bear jessamine ; and he who should plant honey- suckle round Trajan's column , would not be thought to adorn , but to disgrace it . When I have said ...
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... common occasions , of sitting steadily down at the other end of the room to write at the moment what should be said in company , either by Dr. Johnson or to him , I never practised myself , nor approved of in another . ( ' ) There is ...
... common occasions , of sitting steadily down at the other end of the room to write at the moment what should be said in company , either by Dr. Johnson or to him , I never practised myself , nor approved of in another . ( ' ) There is ...
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... common life , leaving no ideas behind which could serve living wight as warning or direction . How I should act is not the case , But how would Brutus in my place ? And now , " cries Mr. Johnson , laughing with obstre- perous violence ...
... common life , leaving no ideas behind which could serve living wight as warning or direction . How I should act is not the case , But how would Brutus in my place ? And now , " cries Mr. Johnson , laughing with obstre- perous violence ...
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... common beggars ? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco . " And why should they be denied such sweet- eners of their existence ? " says Johnson ; " It is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure , reckoned too ...
... common beggars ? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco . " And why should they be denied such sweet- eners of their existence ? " says Johnson ; " It is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure , reckoned too ...
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... common in great cities , that a surly fellow like me has no compas- sion to spare for wounds given only to vanity or soft- ness . No man , therefore , who smarted from the ingratitude of his friends found any sympathy from our ...
... common in great cities , that a surly fellow like me has no compas- sion to spare for wounds given only to vanity or soft- ness . No man , therefore , who smarted from the ingratitude of his friends found any sympathy from our ...
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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