The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... John Floyer , then a physician in Lichfield . Johnson used to talk of this very frankly . Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne , - " He had , " he said , " a confused , but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in ...
... John Floyer , then a physician in Lichfield . Johnson used to talk of this very frankly . Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne , - " He had , " he said , " a confused , but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in ...
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... was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of John- son's arrival at Oxford . On that evening his father , who had anxiously accompanied him , found means to have him introduced 8 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... was present , and gave me some account of what passed on the night of John- son's arrival at Oxford . On that evening his father , who had anxiously accompanied him , found means to have him introduced 8 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... John- son's design to employ his talents in that manner , being confident he would have attained to great eminence . And , indeed , I can- not conceive a man better qualified to make a distinguished figure as a lawyer ; for he would ...
... John- son's design to employ his talents in that manner , being confident he would have attained to great eminence . And , indeed , I can- not conceive a man better qualified to make a distinguished figure as a lawyer ; for he would ...
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... John- son , who was ever depreciating stage - players , after censuring some mistakes in emphasis , which Garrick had committed in the course of that night's acting , said , " The players , sir , have got a kind of rant , with which ...
... John- son , who was ever depreciating stage - players , after censuring some mistakes in emphasis , which Garrick had committed in the course of that night's acting , said , " The players , sir , have got a kind of rant , with which ...
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... employed , as he told me , six amanuenses ; and let it be remembered by the natives of * See Sir John Hawkins's " Life of Johnson . " - BOSWELL . 1 North Britain , to whom he is supposed to have 42 BOSWELL'S life of JoHNSON .
... employed , as he told me , six amanuenses ; and let it be remembered by the natives of * See Sir John Hawkins's " Life of Johnson . " - BOSWELL . 1 North Britain , to whom he is supposed to have 42 BOSWELL'S life of JoHNSON .
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