The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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Page 44
... happy as we can . We will go again to the Mitre , and talk old times over . 1 am , dear Sir , yours affectionately , - " SAM . JOHNSON . " On Monday , March 19. , I arrived in London , and on Tuesday , the 20th , met him in Fleet Street ...
... happy as we can . We will go again to the Mitre , and talk old times over . 1 am , dear Sir , yours affectionately , - " SAM . JOHNSON . " On Monday , March 19. , I arrived in London , and on Tuesday , the 20th , met him in Fleet Street ...
Page 65
... happy ; but I have had a great loss . I am otherwise pretty well . I require some care of myself , but that care is not ineffectual ; and when I am out of order , I think it often my own fault . " The spring is now making quick advances ...
... happy ; but I have had a great loss . I am otherwise pretty well . I require some care of myself , but that care is not ineffectual ; and when I am out of order , I think it often my own fault . " The spring is now making quick advances ...
Page 74
... happy propriety , inscribed under that fine portrait of him , which by Lady Diana's kindness is now the pro- perty of my friend Mr. Langton , the following passage from his beloved Shakspeare : 66 A merrier man , Within the limit of ...
... happy propriety , inscribed under that fine portrait of him , which by Lady Diana's kindness is now the pro- perty of my friend Mr. Langton , the following passage from his beloved Shakspeare : 66 A merrier man , Within the limit of ...
Page 85
... happy days which are fore- told in the scripture , when the lion shall lie down with the kid . ( 1 ) After this day there was another pretty long in- terval , during which Dr. Johnson and I did not meet . When I mentioned it to him with ...
... happy days which are fore- told in the scripture , when the lion shall lie down with the kid . ( 1 ) After this day there was another pretty long in- terval , during which Dr. Johnson and I did not meet . When I mentioned it to him with ...
Page 87
... happy ? My friend with much address evaded my interrogatories , and kept me as quiet as pos- sible ; but it may easily be conceived how he must have felt . ( 1 ) However , when a few days 99 ( 1 ) Next day I endeavoured to give what had ...
... happy ? My friend with much address evaded my interrogatories , and kept me as quiet as pos- sible ; but it may easily be conceived how he must have felt . ( 1 ) However , when a few days 99 ( 1 ) Next day I endeavoured to give what had ...
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