The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies; Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor DoddJ. Kay, 1828 - 292 páginas |
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... lived to be twenty - seven or twenty - eight years old , and of whose manly spirit I have heard his brother speak with pride and pleasure . Their father , Michael , died of an inflammatory fever , at the age of seventy - six , as Mr ...
... lived to be twenty - seven or twenty - eight years old , and of whose manly spirit I have heard his brother speak with pride and pleasure . Their father , Michael , died of an inflammatory fever , at the age of seventy - six , as Mr ...
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... lived on bread and water , to obtain instruction for them . " The remembrance of what had passed in his own childhood , made Mr. Johnson very solicitous to pre- serve the felicity of children ; and when he had persuaded Dr. Sumner to ...
... lived on bread and water , to obtain instruction for them . " The remembrance of what had passed in his own childhood , made Mr. Johnson very solicitous to pre- serve the felicity of children ; and when he had persuaded Dr. Sumner to ...
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... lived at Rochester . The man immor- talized for purring like a cat , was , as he told me , one Busby , a proctor in the commons . He who barked so ingeniously , and then called the drawer to drive away the dog , was father to Dr. Salter ...
... lived at Rochester . The man immor- talized for purring like a cat , was , as he told me , one Busby , a proctor in the commons . He who barked so ingeniously , and then called the drawer to drive away the dog , was father to Dr. Salter ...
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... a vice against which , however , I He then lived in Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , whence he afterwards removed to Bolt Court , where he died . 66 never much heard Mr. Johnson declaim , till one 16 BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF.
... a vice against which , however , I He then lived in Johnson's Court , Fleet Street , whence he afterwards removed to Bolt Court , where he died . 66 never much heard Mr. Johnson declaim , till one 16 BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF.
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... lived , I think , and kept his faculties entire , to have written , had not incessant care been exerted at the time of his first coming to be our con- stant guest in the country ; and several times after that , when he found himself ...
... lived , I think , and kept his faculties entire , to have written , had not incessant care been exerted at the time of his first coming to be our con- stant guest in the country ; and several times after that , when he found himself ...
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