The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volum 6Henry G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... gentleman's house - The upper floor paved with brick ( 2 ) Little Vienne -The court is ill paved The rooms at the top are small , fit to soothe the imagin- ation with privacy · In the front of Versailles are small basins of water on the ...
... gentleman's house - The upper floor paved with brick ( 2 ) Little Vienne -The court is ill paved The rooms at the top are small , fit to soothe the imagin- ation with privacy · In the front of Versailles are small basins of water on the ...
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... gentleman seemed to wonder and delight in his conversation : _the_talk was all in Latin , which both spoke fluently , and Dr. Johnson pronounced a long eulogium upon Milton with so much ardour , eloquence , and ingenuity , that the abbé ...
... gentleman seemed to wonder and delight in his conversation : _the_talk was all in Latin , which both spoke fluently , and Dr. Johnson pronounced a long eulogium upon Milton with so much ardour , eloquence , and ingenuity , that the abbé ...
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... gentleman said to John- son , Sir , you have not seen the best French players . " JOHNSON . " Players , Sir ! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools , to make faces and produce laughter , like ...
... gentleman said to John- son , Sir , you have not seen the best French players . " JOHNSON . " Players , Sir ! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools , to make faces and produce laughter , like ...
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... gentleman's lively manner ; and in justice to him it is proper to add , that Dr. Johnson told me I might rely both on the correctness of his memory , and the fidelity of his narrative . " When Madame de Boufflers ( 1 ) was first in ...
... gentleman's lively manner ; and in justice to him it is proper to add , that Dr. Johnson told me I might rely both on the correctness of his memory , and the fidelity of his narrative . " When Madame de Boufflers ( 1 ) was first in ...
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... gentlemen recollects , shall here be in- serted . " I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night , and then the nap takes me . " " The writer of an epitaph should not be considered . K as saying nothing but what is ...
... gentlemen recollects , shall here be in- serted . " I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night , and then the nap takes me . " " The writer of an epitaph should not be considered . K as saying nothing but what is ...
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