The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Bickers and Son, 1874 - Authors, English |
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... lived with the great and the witty , should have acquired so ill the talents of con- versation and he had but half to furnish ; for one half of what he ' said was oaths . " He , however , allowed considerable merit to some of his ...
... lived with the great and the witty , should have acquired so ill the talents of con- versation and he had but half to furnish ; for one half of what he ' said was oaths . " He , however , allowed considerable merit to some of his ...
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... lived . " Tom Davies instanced Charles the Second . JOHNSON . ( taking fire at any attack upon this Prince , for whom he had an extraordinary partiality , ) " Charles the Second was licentious in his practice ; but he always had a ...
... lived . " Tom Davies instanced Charles the Second . JOHNSON . ( taking fire at any attack upon this Prince , for whom he had an extraordinary partiality , ) " Charles the Second was licentious in his practice ; but he always had a ...
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... lived with him . What I have preserved , however , has the value of the most perfect authenticity . He this day enlarged upon Pope's melancholy remark , " Man never is , but always to be blest . " He asserted , that the present was ...
... lived with him . What I have preserved , however , has the value of the most perfect authenticity . He this day enlarged upon Pope's melancholy remark , " Man never is , but always to be blest . " He asserted , that the present was ...
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... lived . Cor . et Ad . - Line 28 , after " continent " read- " TO MR . ROBERT LEVET . This was the " Sept. 18 , 1775 , Calais . " DEAR SIR , -We are here in France , after a very pleasing passage of no more than six hours . I know not ...
... lived . Cor . et Ad . - Line 28 , after " continent " read- " TO MR . ROBERT LEVET . This was the " Sept. 18 , 1775 , Calais . " DEAR SIR , -We are here in France , after a very pleasing passage of no more than six hours . I know not ...
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... lived at the Benedictines ; meagre day ; soup meagre , herrings , eels , both with sauce ; fryed fish ; lentils , tasteless in themselves . In the library ; where I found Masseus's • I have looked in vain into De Bure , Meerman ...
... lived at the Benedictines ; meagre day ; soup meagre , herrings , eels , both with sauce ; fryed fish ; lentils , tasteless in themselves . In the library ; where I found Masseus's • I have looked in vain into De Bure , Meerman ...
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