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... lady , 1 since you are so severe against her principles . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , I have the better chance for that . She is like the Amazons of old ; she must be courted by the sword . But I have not been severe upon her . " BoSWELL ...
... lady , 1 since you are so severe against her principles . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , I have the better chance for that . She is like the Amazons of old ; she must be courted by the sword . But I have not been severe upon her . " BoSWELL ...
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... - ble cause of Dr. Johnson's depreciation of this lady , that he associated her with the disagreeable recollection of the failure of his play . a shoemaker thinks of the skin , out of which THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . II.
... - ble cause of Dr. Johnson's depreciation of this lady , that he associated her with the disagreeable recollection of the failure of his play . a shoemaker thinks of the skin , out of which THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . II.
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... lady , there is no wit in what our friend added ; there is only abuse . You may as well say of any man that he will pick a pocket . Besides , the man who is stationed at the door does not pick people's pockets : that is done within , by ...
... lady , there is no wit in what our friend added ; there is only abuse . You may as well say of any man that he will pick a pocket . Besides , the man who is stationed at the door does not pick people's pockets : that is done within , by ...
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... lady . He said , " Well , Sir , you have done a good thing , and a wise thing . " " I have done a good thing , ( said the gentleman , ) but I do not know that I have done a wise thing . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; no money is better spent ...
... lady . He said , " Well , Sir , you have done a good thing , and a wise thing . " " I have done a good thing , ( said the gentleman , ) but I do not know that I have done a wise thing . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; no money is better spent ...
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... ladies will have neither sickness nor any other affliction . But she knows that she does not care what becomes ... lady in the mar- gin of her copy " never had : I thought him a comical and a clever fellow . " 2 Boswell was growing ...
... ladies will have neither sickness nor any other affliction . But she knows that she does not care what becomes ... lady in the mar- gin of her copy " never had : I thought him a comical and a clever fellow . " 2 Boswell was growing ...
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