The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a ...
... passed in what he thought idleness , and was scolded by his father for his want of steady application . He had no settled plan of life , nor looked forward at all , but merely lived from day to day . Yet he read a great deal in a ...
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... passed at home , cannot be traced . Enough has been said of his irregular mode of study . He told me , that from his earliest years he loved to read poetry , but hardly ever read any poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period ...
... passed at home , cannot be traced . Enough has been said of his irregular mode of study . He told me , that from his earliest years he loved to read poetry , but hardly ever read any poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period ...
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... passed there the happiest part of his life . " But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances , and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently ; for the truth is , that he ...
... passed there the happiest part of his life . " But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of appearances , and how little any of us know of the real internal state even of those whom we see most frequently ; for the truth is , that he ...
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... passed much time in his early days . In most of them he was in the company of ladies , particularly at Mr. Walmesley's , whose wife and sisters - in - law , of the name of Aston , and daugh- " At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful ...
... passed much time in his early days . In most of them he was in the company of ladies , particularly at Mr. Walmesley's , whose wife and sisters - in - law , of the name of Aston , and daugh- " At this man's table I enjoyed many cheerful ...
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... passed me , and complained that I lagged behind . I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end . I therefore pushed on briskly , till I was fairly out of her sight . The road lay between two ...
... passed me , and complained that I lagged behind . I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end . I therefore pushed on briskly , till I was fairly out of her sight . The road lay between two ...
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