The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Band 1H.G. Bohn, 1844 |
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... thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings , and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own . " It was a strange and fortunate ...
... thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings , and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own . " It was a strange and fortunate ...
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... thought more respectable ; and have been pictured on the walls of Auchinleck ( the very name of which we never should have heard ) by some stiff , provincial painter , in a lawyer's wig or a squire's hunting cap ; but his portrait , by ...
... thought more respectable ; and have been pictured on the walls of Auchinleck ( the very name of which we never should have heard ) by some stiff , provincial painter , in a lawyer's wig or a squire's hunting cap ; but his portrait , by ...
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... thought and feeling of their kind , and invests the very soil where it can be shown they ever set foot , with a living and sacred charm of interest , years and ages after the loftiest of the contemporaries , that did or did not ...
... thought and feeling of their kind , and invests the very soil where it can be shown they ever set foot , with a living and sacred charm of interest , years and ages after the loftiest of the contemporaries , that did or did not ...
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... thought worthy of particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedi- cation , when I ...
... thought worthy of particular attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedi- cation , when I ...
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... thought ridiculously ostentatious . Let me only ob- serve , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ...
... thought ridiculously ostentatious . Let me only ob- serve , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ...
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