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Indeed , as letters , few of Johnson's can hav great charm for the common reader ; they are full of good sense and go ture , but in forms too didactic and ponderous to be very amusing . If the could have ventured to make so great an ...
Indeed , as letters , few of Johnson's can hav great charm for the common reader ; they are full of good sense and go ture , but in forms too didactic and ponderous to be very amusing . If the could have ventured to make so great an ...
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We must recollect that it is not his table - talk or his literary conversations only that have been published : all his most private and mest trifling correspondence - all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses ...
We must recollect that it is not his table - talk or his literary conversations only that have been published : all his most private and mest trifling correspondence - all his most common as well as his most confidential intercourses ...
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Johnson's mother [ was slight in her person , and rather below than above the common size . So excellent was her character , and so bla her life , that when an oppressive nei once endeavoured to take from her ] field she possessed ...
Johnson's mother [ was slight in her person , and rather below than above the common size . So excellent was her character , and so bla her life , that when an oppressive nei once endeavoured to take from her ] field she possessed ...
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... no very easy operation , common parts , was unwilling to let him reas his size was remarkably large . ... indeed , prevented him from sustain by his absence from school , became enjoying the common sports ; and he once his ...
... no very easy operation , common parts , was unwilling to let him reas his size was remarkably large . ... indeed , prevented him from sustain by his absence from school , became enjoying the common sports ; and he once his ...
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The only instances are , in describing London as the sink of foreign worthlessness : -the common shore , ard No calling or profession comes am'ss : A acely monsieur can be what he please . " OLDHAM . ** • All sciences a fasting monsieur ...
The only instances are , in describing London as the sink of foreign worthlessness : -the common shore , ard No calling or profession comes am'ss : A acely monsieur can be what he please . " OLDHAM . ** • All sciences a fasting monsieur ...
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Page 198 - My judgment, to be sure, was not so good ; but I had all the facts. I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, ' Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge ; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | George Dearborn, 1833 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2006 |
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