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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... kind of game , there will be ever found ways of playing fairly or unfairly at it , which distinguish the gentleman from the juggler . 14. Anacreon's Dove . Dr. Johnson , as well as many of my acquaintance , knew that I kept a ...
... kind of game , there will be ever found ways of playing fairly or unfairly at it , which distinguish the gentleman from the juggler . 14. Anacreon's Dove . Dr. Johnson , as well as many of my acquaintance , knew that I kept a ...
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... kind of con- versation pleased him less , I think , than when the sub- ject was historical fact or general polity . " What shall we learn from that stuff ? " said he : " let us not fancy , like Swift , that we are exalting a woman's cha ...
... kind of con- versation pleased him less , I think , than when the sub- ject was historical fact or general polity . " What shall we learn from that stuff ? " said he : " let us not fancy , like Swift , that we are exalting a woman's cha ...
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... kind of dramatic effect to the general proposition . Swift never dreamt ( as Mrs. Piozzi's report would lead us to think that Johnson supposed ) to advise that our rules of conduct were to be drawn from the actual events of Greek and ...
... kind of dramatic effect to the general proposition . Swift never dreamt ( as Mrs. Piozzi's report would lead us to think that Johnson supposed ) to advise that our rules of conduct were to be drawn from the actual events of Greek and ...
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... kind consoler , the companion of the easy vacant hour , whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity , and whose conversation can just soothe , without ever stretching her mind , that is the lover to be feared : he who ...
... kind consoler , the companion of the easy vacant hour , whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity , and whose conversation can just soothe , without ever stretching her mind , that is the lover to be feared : he who ...
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... wore laced coats now ; and that once every body wore them . " See now , " says Johnson , " how absurd that is ; as if the bulk of man- kind consisted of fine gentlemen that came to him to 54 JOHNSONIANA . World, Avarice, 298 Gentlemen,
... wore laced coats now ; and that once every body wore them . " See now , " says Johnson , " how absurd that is ; as if the bulk of man- kind consisted of fine gentlemen that came to him to 54 JOHNSONIANA . World, Avarice, 298 Gentlemen,
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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