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 Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 2National ilustrated library, 1851 |
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... talked bawdy ; or that you had seen him in the cart at Tyburn , and he neither swore nor talked bawdy . And is it thus , Sir , that you presume to controvert what I have related ? " Dr. Johnson's animadversion was uttered in such a ...
... talked bawdy ; or that you had seen him in the cart at Tyburn , and he neither swore nor talked bawdy . And is it thus , Sir , that you presume to controvert what I have related ? " Dr. Johnson's animadversion was uttered in such a ...
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... talked of the notion that blind persons can distinguish colours by the touch . Johnson said , that Professor Sanderson mentions his having attempted to do it , but that he found he was aiming at an impossibility ; that to be sure a ...
... talked of the notion that blind persons can distinguish colours by the touch . Johnson said , that Professor Sanderson mentions his having attempted to do it , but that he found he was aiming at an impossibility ; that to be sure a ...
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... talked of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself . JOHNSON : " It was owing to imaginary difficulties in his affairs , which , had he talked of with any friend , would soon have vanished . BOSWELL : " Do you think ...
... talked of the melancholy end of a gentleman who had destroyed himself . JOHNSON : " It was owing to imaginary difficulties in his affairs , which , had he talked of with any friend , would soon have vanished . BOSWELL : " Do you think ...
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Johnson introduced to George III Visits LichfieldDeath of Catherine Cham | 30 |
1769 | 50 |
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