The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 - Authors, English |
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Page vi
... happy expression was used . Again : When Mr. Boswell's capricious delicacy induced him to suppress names and to substitute such descriptions as " an eminent friend , " " a young gen- " Dr. Johnson talked with approbation of an intended ...
... happy expression was used . Again : When Mr. Boswell's capricious delicacy induced him to suppress names and to substitute such descriptions as " an eminent friend , " " a young gen- " Dr. Johnson talked with approbation of an intended ...
Page xxi
... happy and peculiar style , some notes of his recollections of Dr. Johnson . These , by a very unusual accident ' , were lost , and his lordship's great age and increasing infirmity have deterred the editor from again troubling him on ...
... happy and peculiar style , some notes of his recollections of Dr. Johnson . These , by a very unusual accident ' , were lost , and his lordship's great age and increasing infirmity have deterred the editor from again troubling him on ...
Page xxxiv
... happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me , for the number of valuable acquaint- ances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes cœnæque Deum ...
... happy hours which I owe to your kindness , -for the cordiality with which you have at all times been pleased to welcome me , for the number of valuable acquaint- ances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes cœnæque Deum ...
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... Happy was the boy who could inform his offended master where a covey of partridges was to be found ; this notice was a certain pledge of his pardon . ' -Davies ' Life of Garrick , vol . p . 3. He was a prebendary in the Cathedral of ...
... Happy was the boy who could inform his offended master where a covey of partridges was to be found ; this notice was a certain pledge of his pardon . ' -Davies ' Life of Garrick , vol . p . 3. He was a prebendary in the Cathedral of ...
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... happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , Sir , we are a nest of singing birds . " 66 He was not , however , blind to what he thought the defects of his own college ...
... happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , Sir , we are a nest of singing birds . " 66 He was not , however , blind to what he thought the defects of his own college ...
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