The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... told me that he remembered distinctly having had the first notion of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and Hell , " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ...
... told me that he remembered distinctly having had the first notion of Heaven , " a place to which good people went , " and Hell , " a place to which bad people went , " communicated to him by her , when a little child in bed with her ...
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... told me , was not works of mere amusement , " not voyages and travels , but all literature , sir , all ancient writers , all manly : though but little Greek , only some of Anacreon and Hesiod ; but in this irregular manner , " added he ...
... told me , was not works of mere amusement , " not voyages and travels , but all literature , sir , all ancient writers , all manly : though but little Greek , only some of Anacreon and Hesiod ; but in this irregular manner , " added he ...
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... told the company he was a good scholar and a poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and man- ner appeared strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation ...
... told the company he was a good scholar and a poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and man- ner appeared strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation ...
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... 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 so early , that the speech of the Ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that ...
... 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 so early , that the speech of the Ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that ...
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... told me that Johnson , while he was at Pembroke College , " was caressed and loved by all about him , was a gay and frolicsome fellow , and passed there the happiest part of his life . " But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of ...
... told me that Johnson , while he was at Pembroke College , " was caressed and loved by all about him , was a gay and frolicsome fellow , and passed there the happiest part of his life . " But this is a striking proof of the fallacy of ...
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