The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 - Authors, English |
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... once asked him whether a person whose name I have now forgotten , studied hard , he answered " No , Sir . I do not ... once observed to me that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar facility in seizing at ...
... once asked him whether a person whose name I have now forgotten , studied hard , he answered " No , Sir . I do not ... once observed to me that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar facility in seizing at ...
Page 248
... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
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... once say , “ I have great merit in being zealous for subordination and the honours of birth ; for I can hardly tell who was my grandfather . " He main- tained the dignity and propriety of male succession , in opposition to the opinion ...
... once say , “ I have great merit in being zealous for subordination and the honours of birth ; for I can hardly tell who was my grandfather . " He main- tained the dignity and propriety of male succession , in opposition to the opinion ...
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