The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... truth , there was not the least reality of any of the suppositions ; so that when the vapors were dispelled they were convinced of the delusion . To Johnson , whose supreme enjoyment was the exercise of his reason , the dis- turbance or ...
... truth , there was not the least reality of any of the suppositions ; so that when the vapors were dispelled they were convinced of the delusion . To Johnson , whose supreme enjoyment was the exercise of his reason , the dis- turbance or ...
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... truth is , that he was then depressed by poverty , and irritated by disease . When I mentioned to him this account as given me by Dr. Adams , he said , " Ah , sir , I was mad and violent . It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic ...
... truth is , that he was then depressed by poverty , and irritated by disease . When I mentioned to him this account as given me by Dr. Adams , he said , " Ah , sir , I was mad and violent . It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic ...
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... truth is , that he was not so well qualified for being a teacher of elements , and a conductor in learning by regular gradations , as men of in- ferior powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent ...
... truth is , that he was not so well qualified for being a teacher of elements , and a conductor in learning by regular gradations , as men of in- ferior powers of mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent ...
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... truth , that Johnson offered his " London " to several booksellers , none of whom would purchase it . To this circumstance Mr. Derrick alludes in the following lines of his " Fortune , a Rhapsody " : " Will no kind patron Johnson own ...
... truth , that Johnson offered his " London " to several booksellers , none of whom would purchase it . To this circumstance Mr. Derrick alludes in the following lines of his " Fortune , a Rhapsody " : " Will no kind patron Johnson own ...
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... truth I had from Johnson himself . Sir , he was impertinent to me and I beat him . But it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber . " A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found . I ...
... truth I had from Johnson himself . Sir , he was impertinent to me and I beat him . But it was not in his shop ; it was in my own chamber . " A very diligent observer may trace him where we should not easily suppose him to be found . I ...
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