The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 4J. Murray, 1839 |
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... lordship for some time . The reason will ap- pear when we come to the Isle of Sky . I shall then insert my letter , with letters from his lordship , both to myself and Mr. Johnson . I beg it may be understood , that I insert my own ...
... lordship for some time . The reason will ap- pear when we come to the Isle of Sky . I shall then insert my letter , with letters from his lordship , both to myself and Mr. Johnson . I beg it may be understood , that I insert my own ...
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... lordship , who politely said to him , " I have not the honour of knowing you ; but I hope for it , and to see you at my house . I am to wait on you to - morrow . " This respectable English judge will be long remembered in Scotland ...
... lordship , who politely said to him , " I have not the honour of knowing you ; but I hope for it , and to see you at my house . I am to wait on you to - morrow . " This respectable English judge will be long remembered in Scotland ...
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... lordship had not then published his " Annals of Scotland . " JOHNSON . " I remember I was once on a visit at the house of a lady for whom I had a high respect . There was a good deal of company in the room . When they were gone , I said ...
... lordship had not then published his " Annals of Scotland . " JOHNSON . " I remember I was once on a visit at the house of a lady for whom I had a high respect . There was a good deal of company in the room . When they were gone , I said ...
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... lordship can distinguish so . ' 99 In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes there is the following passage : > " The teeming mother , anxious for her race , Begs , for each birth , the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could tell what ills ...
... lordship can distinguish so . ' 99 In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes there is the following passage : > " The teeming mother , anxious for her race , Begs , for each birth , the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could tell what ills ...
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... lordship's proposed substitution of a fabulous ( or at least apocryphal ) beauty like Jane Shore , whose story , even if true , was obsolete ; or that of a foreigner , like Mlle . De la Valière , little known and less cared for amongst ...
... lordship's proposed substitution of a fabulous ( or at least apocryphal ) beauty like Jane Shore , whose story , even if true , was obsolete ; or that of a foreigner , like Mlle . De la Valière , little known and less cared for amongst ...
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