The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... pleased with this proof of Johnson's abilities as a dramatic writer , and advised him to finish the tragedy and produce it on the stage . CHAPTER II . - 1737-1743 . Johnson arrives in London , accompanied by Garrick - First Residence ...
... pleased with this proof of Johnson's abilities as a dramatic writer , and advised him to finish the tragedy and produce it on the stage . CHAPTER II . - 1737-1743 . Johnson arrives in London , accompanied by Garrick - First Residence ...
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... pleased to favor me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if you are . " I am , sir , your humble servant , " SAMUEL JOHNSON . " It should seem from this letter ...
... pleased to favor me with a speedy answer , if you are not willing to engage in this scheme ; and appoint me a day to wait upon you , if you are . " I am , sir , your humble servant , " SAMUEL JOHNSON . " It should seem from this letter ...
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... pleased , embody and render permanent without much labor . Some of them , however , he observed , were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign ...
... pleased , embody and render permanent without much labor . Some of them , however , he observed , were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign ...
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... pleased with the mind , the fair view of human nature , which it exhibited , like some of the reflections of Rochefaucault . The consequence was , that he went home with Reynolds , and supped with him . Sir Joshua told me a pleasant ...
... pleased with the mind , the fair view of human nature , which it exhibited , like some of the reflections of Rochefaucault . The consequence was , that he went home with Reynolds , and supped with him . Sir Joshua told me a pleasant ...
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... pleased with their amusement , that they resolved to perse- vere in dissipation for the rest of the day but Langton deserted them , being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies . John- son scolded him for " leaving his social ...
... pleased with their amusement , that they resolved to perse- vere in dissipation for the rest of the day but Langton deserted them , being engaged to breakfast with some young ladies . John- son scolded him for " leaving his social ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards answered appeared Ashbourne asked Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON better called character church consider conversation David Garrick dear sir death Dictionary dined dinner drink English entertained Erse favor Francis Barber Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honor hope humble servant humor Inchkenneth JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind king lady Langton language learning Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo LUCY PORTER Macleod madam manner mentioned merit mind Miss morning never night obliged observed once opinion Oxford Pembroke College pleased pleasure poem poet praise pretty recollect remark Samuel Johnson Scotland seemed Shakspeare Sir Joshua Reynolds soon Streatham suppose sure talked tell things thought Thrale tion told truth walked wine wish wonder write written wrote young