The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... tell her that her son Jervis called to know how she did ; ' and was going away . The maid begged she might run up to tell her mistress , and , with- out attending his answer , left him . Mrs. Johnson , en- raptured to hear her son was ...
... tell her that her son Jervis called to know how she did ; ' and was going away . The maid begged she might run up to tell her mistress , and , with- out attending his answer , left him . Mrs. Johnson , en- raptured to hear her son was ...
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... tell a secret to a friend is no breach of fidelity , because the number of persons is not multiplied ; a man and his friend being virtually the same . - WRIGHT . 44 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " 3rd edit . p . 167 . -BOSWELL ...
... tell a secret to a friend is no breach of fidelity , because the number of persons is not multiplied ; a man and his friend being virtually the same . - WRIGHT . 44 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " 3rd edit . p . 167 . -BOSWELL ...
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... tell me your determination about the Soldier's Letter , * which I am confident was never printed . I think it will not do by itself , or in any other place so well as the Mag . Extra- ordinary . If you will have it all , I believe you ...
... tell me your determination about the Soldier's Letter , * which I am confident was never printed . I think it will not do by itself , or in any other place so well as the Mag . Extra- ordinary . If you will have it all , I believe you ...
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... tell what ills from beauty spring , And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'd a king . " " The lady mentioned in the first of these verses , was not the celebrated Lady Vane , whose memoirs were given to the public by Dr. Smollett , but ...
... tell what ills from beauty spring , And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'd a king . " " The lady mentioned in the first of these verses , was not the celebrated Lady Vane , whose memoirs were given to the public by Dr. Smollett , but ...
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... tell him , it was not in the Vir- gilian style . He much regretted that his first tutor was dead ; for whom he seemed to retain the greatest regard . He said , I once had been a whole morning sliding in Christ - church meadows , and ...
... tell him , it was not in the Vir- gilian style . He much regretted that his first tutor was dead ; for whom he seemed to retain the greatest regard . He said , I once had been a whole morning sliding in Christ - church meadows , and ...
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