The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour to the Hebrides. New eds. with notes and appendices by A. Napier. [Followed by] Johnsoniana, ed. by R. Napier, Volume 61884 |
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... knew and described Johnson in their early days , before Hannah's native sense and fun had been cramped and dulled , and before Fanny's style was ruined by affectation . Of all Johnson's friends , we should naturally , perhaps , look ...
... knew and described Johnson in their early days , before Hannah's native sense and fun had been cramped and dulled , and before Fanny's style was ruined by affectation . Of all Johnson's friends , we should naturally , perhaps , look ...
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... knew that there was no security obtained by barring the front door . " This ( says his son ) was madness , you may see , and would have been discoverable in other instances of the prevalence of imagination , but that poverty prevented ...
... knew that there was no security obtained by barring the front door . " This ( says his son ) was madness , you may see , and would have been discoverable in other instances of the prevalence of imagination , but that poverty prevented ...
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... knew him ; and it was owing to that horrible disorder , too , that one eye was perfectly useless to him ; that defect , however , was not observable , the eyes looked both alike . As Mr. Johnson had an astonishing memory , I asked him ...
... knew him ; and it was owing to that horrible disorder , too , that one eye was perfectly useless to him ; that defect , however , was not observable , the eyes looked both alike . As Mr. Johnson had an astonishing memory , I asked him ...
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... knew better than Johnson in how many nameless and numberless actions behaviour consists : actions which can scarcely be reduced to rule , and which come under no description . Of these he retained so many very strange ones , that I ...
... knew better than Johnson in how many nameless and numberless actions behaviour consists : actions which can scarcely be reduced to rule , and which come under no description . Of these he retained so many very strange ones , that I ...
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... knew what they called a puppy's mother . " We were talking of a young fellow who used to come often to the house ; he was about fifteen years old , or less , if I remember right , and had a manner at once sullen and sheepish . " That ...
... knew what they called a puppy's mother . " We were talking of a young fellow who used to come often to the house ; he was about fifteen years old , or less , if I remember right , and had a manner at once sullen and sheepish . " That ...
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Page 33 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 30 - Hermit hoar, in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray; Strike thy bosom sage! and tell, What is bliss, and which the way ? Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd, Scarce repress'd the starting tear, When the hoary Sage reply'd, Come, my lad, and drink some beer.
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Page 365 - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.