The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... Miss Mary Adye , of Lichfield . " When Dr. Sacheverel was at Lichfield , Johnson was not quite three years old . My grandfather Hammond observed him at the cathedral perched upon his father's shoulders , listening and gaping at the much ...
... Miss Mary Adye , of Lichfield . " When Dr. Sacheverel was at Lichfield , Johnson was not quite three years old . My grandfather Hammond observed him at the cathedral perched upon his father's shoulders , listening and gaping at the much ...
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... Miss Porter told me , that when he was first introduced to her mother , his appearance was very for- bidding ; he was then lean and lank , so that his immense struc- ture of bones was hideously striking to the eye , and the scars of the ...
... Miss Porter told me , that when he was first introduced to her mother , his appearance was very for- bidding ; he was then lean and lank , so that his immense struc- ture of bones was hideously striking to the eye , and the scars of the ...
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... miss it ; and I contrived that she should soon come up with me . When she did I observed her to be in tears . " This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of connu- bial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though ...
... miss it ; and I contrived that she should soon come up with me . When she did I observed her to be in tears . " This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of connu- bial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though ...
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... Miss Mulso , now Mrs. Chapone ; No. 30 , by Mrs. Catherine Talbot ; No. 97 , by Mr. Samuel Richardson , whom he describes in an introductory note as an author who has en- larged the knowledge of human nature , and taught the passions to ...
... Miss Mulso , now Mrs. Chapone ; No. 30 , by Mrs. Catherine Talbot ; No. 97 , by Mr. Samuel Richardson , whom he describes in an introductory note as an author who has en- larged the knowledge of human nature , and taught the passions to ...
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... Miss Williams - Close of the " Rambler " -Commencement of Hawkesworth's " Adven- turer " -Death of Mrs. Johnson - Johnson's Friendship with Reynolds - Langton— Beauclerk - Writings in the " Adventurer " -Extract from Diary -- Johnson ...
... Miss Williams - Close of the " Rambler " -Commencement of Hawkesworth's " Adven- turer " -Death of Mrs. Johnson - Johnson's Friendship with Reynolds - Langton— Beauclerk - Writings in the " Adventurer " -Extract from Diary -- Johnson ...
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