The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... heard him following her . " What's the matter ? " said she . " I can say it , " he replied ; and repeated it distinctly , though he could not have read it more than twice . Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the ...
... heard him following her . " What's the matter ? " said she . " I can say it , " he replied ; and repeated it distinctly , though he could not have read it more than twice . Young Johnson had the misfortune to be much afflicted with the ...
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... heard or read . Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ...
... heard or read . Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ...
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... heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which pre- vented his ever fixing in any profession . ' " " After having resided for some time at the house of his uncle , Cornelius Ford , Johnson was , at ...
... heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which pre- vented his ever fixing in any profession . ' " " After having resided for some time at the house of his uncle , Cornelius Ford , Johnson was , at ...
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... heard from some of his contemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the college gate , with a circle of young students round him , whom he was entertaining with wit , and keeping from their studies , if not spiriting them up to ...
... heard from some of his contemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the college gate , with a circle of young students round him , whom he was entertaining with wit , and keeping from their studies , if not spiriting them up to ...
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... heard from my illustrious friend the following cu- rious account of their journey to church upon the nuptial morn : — ' Sir , she had read the old romances , and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should ...
... heard from my illustrious friend the following cu- rious account of their journey to church upon the nuptial morn : — ' Sir , she had read the old romances , and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should ...
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