The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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Page 391
... recollect with confusion , a noble lady of the most stately decorum , I placed myself next to Johnson , and thinking myself now fully his match , talked to him in a loud and boisterous manner , desirous to let the company know how I ...
... recollect with confusion , a noble lady of the most stately decorum , I placed myself next to Johnson , and thinking myself now fully his match , talked to him in a loud and boisterous manner , desirous to let the company know how I ...
Page 442
... recollect only Thrale's . He observed , " There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects . If a young or middle - aged man , when leaving a company , does not recollect where he laid his hat ...
... recollect only Thrale's . He observed , " There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose an old man decayed in his intellects . If a young or middle - aged man , when leaving a company , does not recollect where he laid his hat ...
Page 548
... recollect any particulars that he told you of Lord Peterborough ? He is a favourite of mine , and is not enough known ; his character has been only ventilated in party pamphlets . " Lord Eliot said , if Dr. Johnson would be so good as ...
... recollect any particulars that he told you of Lord Peterborough ? He is a favourite of mine , and is not enough known ; his character has been only ventilated in party pamphlets . " Lord Eliot said , if Dr. Johnson would be so good as ...
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