The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 4J. Murray, 1839 |
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... once launched from the metropolis , he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale , in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed , I was much obliged ...
... once launched from the metropolis , he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale , in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed , I was much obliged ...
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... once to me at Wilton , with a happy pleasantry , and some truth , that " Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary , were it not for his bow - wow way . " But I admit the truth of this , only on some occasions . The Mes ...
... once to me at Wilton , with a happy pleasantry , and some truth , that " Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary , were it not for his bow - wow way . " But I admit the truth of this , only on some occasions . The Mes ...
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... once united me to him . He told me that , before I came in , the Doctor had unluckily had a bad specimen of Scottish cleanliness . He then drank no fermented liquor . He asked to have his lemonade made sweeter ; upon which the waiter ...
... once united me to him . He told me that , before I came in , the Doctor had unluckily had a bad specimen of Scottish cleanliness . He then drank no fermented liquor . He asked to have his lemonade made sweeter ; upon which the waiter ...
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... once a good companion and a good Christian , which , I think , is saying enough . Yet it is but justice to record , that once , when he was in a dangerous illness , he was watched with the anxious apprehension of a general calamity ...
... once a good companion and a good Christian , which , I think , is saying enough . Yet it is but justice to record , that once , when he was in a dangerous illness , he was watched with the anxious apprehension of a general calamity ...
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... once made a good joke . ( 1 ) What I most envy Burke for is , his being con- stantly the same . He is never what we call hum- drum ; never unwilling to begin to talk , nor in haste to leave off . " BOSWELL . " Yet he can listen ...
... once made a good joke . ( 1 ) What I most envy Burke for is , his being con- stantly the same . He is never what we call hum- drum ; never unwilling to begin to talk , nor in haste to leave off . " BOSWELL . " Yet he can listen ...
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