The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Nearly Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 páginas |
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... Father - Intercourse with Society in Lichfield , Gilbert Walmesley , Dr. Swinfen , & c . -Tribute to Walmesley's Memory - Becomes Usher at Market Bosworth School - Removal to Birmingham ; Mr. Hector , Mr. Porter , & c . - Trans- lation ...
... Father - Intercourse with Society in Lichfield , Gilbert Walmesley , Dr. Swinfen , & c . -Tribute to Walmesley's Memory - Becomes Usher at Market Bosworth School - Removal to Birmingham ; Mr. Hector , Mr. Porter , & c . - Trans- lation ...
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... father is there styled Gentleman , a circumstance of which an ignorant panegyrist has praised him for not being proud ; when the truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of ...
... father is there styled Gentleman , a circumstance of which an ignorant panegyrist has praised him for not being proud ; when the truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of ...
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... father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of obscure extraction , who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer . His mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ancient race of substantial yeomanry in Warwickshire ...
... father was Michael Johnson , a native of Derbyshire , of obscure extraction , who settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer . His mother was Sarah Ford , descended of an ancient race of substantial yeomanry in Warwickshire ...
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... father and mother , " says Johnson , " had not much happiness from each other . They seldom conversed ; for my father could not bear to talk of his affairs ; and my mother , being unacquainted with books , cared not to talk of anything ...
... father and mother , " says Johnson , " had not much happiness from each other . They seldom conversed ; for my father could not bear to talk of his affairs ; and my mother , being unacquainted with books , cared not to talk of anything ...
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... father's shoulders , listening and gaping at the much - celebrated preacher . Mr. Hammond asked Mr. Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church , and in the midst of so great a crowd . He answered , because ...
... father's shoulders , listening and gaping at the much - celebrated preacher . Mr. Hammond asked Mr. Johnson how he could possibly think of bringing such an infant to church , and in the midst of so great a crowd . He answered , because ...
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