The Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volum 3G. Bell, 1884 |
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... talked of the strange indecision of mind , and imbecility of the common occurrences of life , which we may observe in some people . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , I am in the habit of getting others to do things for me . " BOSWELL . " What ...
... talked of the strange indecision of mind , and imbecility of the common occurrences of life , which we may observe in some people . JOHNSON . " Why , Sir , I am in the habit of getting others to do things for me . " BOSWELL . " What ...
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... talked very properly . Lord Camden was a little lawyer to be associating so familiarly with a player . " Sir Joshua Reynolds observed , with great truth , that John- son considered Garrick to be as it were his property . He would allow ...
... talked very properly . Lord Camden was a little lawyer to be associating so familiarly with a player . " Sir Joshua Reynolds observed , with great truth , that John- son considered Garrick to be as it were his property . He would allow ...
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... talked with re- gret of the sad inevitable certainty that one of us must survive the other . JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , that is an affecting consider- ation . I remember Swift , in one of his letters to Pope , says , ' I intend to come ...
... talked with re- gret of the sad inevitable certainty that one of us must survive the other . JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir , that is an affecting consider- ation . I remember Swift , in one of his letters to Pope , says , ' I intend to come ...
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... talked on that subject . This , it seems , exasperated him ; though he said nothing at the time . The cloud was charged with sulphureous vapour , which was afterwards to burst in thunder . We talked of a gentleman [ Mr. Langton ] , who ...
... talked on that subject . This , it seems , exasperated him ; though he said nothing at the time . The cloud was charged with sulphureous vapour , which was afterwards to burst in thunder . We talked of a gentleman [ Mr. Langton ] , who ...
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... talked of my having asked you and your lady to live at my house . I was obliged to tell her , that you would be in as respectable a situa- tion in my house as in hers . Sir , the insolence of wealth will creep out . " BOSWELL . " She ...
... talked of my having asked you and your lady to live at my house . I was obliged to tell her , that you would be in as respectable a situa- tion in my house as in hers . Sir , the insolence of wealth will creep out . " BOSWELL . " She ...
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