The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolatory 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 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 |
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... perhaps , have knocked me down for in- sulting him , and have afterwards put the note in his pocket . But I said , if Hervey would write him a let- ter , and enclose a fifty pound note , I should take care to deliver it . He accordingly ...
... perhaps , have knocked me down for in- sulting him , and have afterwards put the note in his pocket . But I said , if Hervey would write him a let- ter , and enclose a fifty pound note , I should take care to deliver it . He accordingly ...
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... , it was to be so . It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign . " Perhaps no man who had spent his whole life in 1767 . Ætat . 58 . 1767. courts could have shewn a more nice and dignified DR . JOHNSON . 39.
... , it was to be so . It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign . " Perhaps no man who had spent his whole life in 1767 . Ætat . 58 . 1767. courts could have shewn a more nice and dignified DR . JOHNSON . 39.
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... perhaps , married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise . Many qualities contribute to domestick happiness , upon which poetry has no colours to bestow : and many airs and sallies may delight imagination , which he who flatters ...
... perhaps , married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise . Many qualities contribute to domestick happiness , upon which poetry has no colours to bestow : and many airs and sallies may delight imagination , which he who flatters ...
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... perhaps , may have been , either that the additional words escaped me in the noise of a nu- merous company , or that Dr. Johnson , from his impetuosity , and eagerness to seize an opportunity to make a lively retort , did not allow Dr ...
... perhaps , may have been , either that the additional words escaped me in the noise of a nu- merous company , or that Dr. Johnson , from his impetuosity , and eagerness to seize an opportunity to make a lively retort , did not allow Dr ...
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... perhaps , too delicately sensible of the roughness which sometimes appeared in Johnson's behaviour . One evening about this time , when his Lordship did me the honour to sup at my lodgings with Dr. Robertson and several other men of ...
... perhaps , too delicately sensible of the roughness which sometimes appeared in Johnson's behaviour . One evening about this time , when his Lordship did me the honour to sup at my lodgings with Dr. Robertson and several other men of ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 2 James Boswell,Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1791 |
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