The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. To which are Added, Volum 10J. Murray, 1835 |
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... conversation is that bright wine of the intellects which has no lees . Dr. Johnson told me truth when he said , she had more colloquial wit than most of our literary women : it is indeed a fountain of perpetual flow . But he did not ...
... conversation is that bright wine of the intellects which has no lees . Dr. Johnson told me truth when he said , she had more colloquial wit than most of our literary women : it is indeed a fountain of perpetual flow . But he did not ...
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... conversation with Dr. Parr , re- peatedly and earnestly avowed his opinion , that accents ( 1 ) [ Dr. Parr , in a letter to Dr. Charles Burney , written in Nov. 1789 , says , " Did you go to Sir Joshua Reynolds's funeral ? hope he had a ...
... conversation with Dr. Parr , re- peatedly and earnestly avowed his opinion , that accents ( 1 ) [ Dr. Parr , in a letter to Dr. Charles Burney , written in Nov. 1789 , says , " Did you go to Sir Joshua Reynolds's funeral ? hope he had a ...
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... conversation happening to turn about Otaheite , he recollected that Omiah had often conquered me at chess ; a subject on which , whenever chance brought it about , he never failed to rally me most unmercifully , and made himself mighty ...
... conversation happening to turn about Otaheite , he recollected that Omiah had often conquered me at chess ; a subject on which , whenever chance brought it about , he never failed to rally me most unmercifully , and made himself mighty ...
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... conversation of gentlemen . His genius was so dis- tinguished , that , although little more than a schoolboy , he was admitted to the best company , both at Lichfield and Stourbridge ; and , in the latter neighbourhood , had met even ...
... conversation of gentlemen . His genius was so dis- tinguished , that , although little more than a schoolboy , he was admitted to the best company , both at Lichfield and Stourbridge ; and , in the latter neighbourhood , had met even ...
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... conversation so agreeable , that she very much enlivened and diverted his solitary hours ; and , though there may have happened some slight disagree- ments between her and Mrs. Desmoulins , which , at the moment , disquieted him , the ...
... conversation so agreeable , that she very much enlivened and diverted his solitary hours ; and , though there may have happened some slight disagree- ments between her and Mrs. Desmoulins , which , at the moment , disquieted him , the ...
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