The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 6Bell, 1889 |
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... death , having been published in the " Gentleman's Magazine " only a few days after that event . Boswell calls it an entertaining little collection of fragments , " and says that Tyers " had lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as ...
... death , having been published in the " Gentleman's Magazine " only a few days after that event . Boswell calls it an entertaining little collection of fragments , " and says that Tyers " had lived with Dr. Johnson in as easy a manner as ...
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... death shall , by my care , be carried even across the spacious Atlantic , and settle in America itself . the sure consequences of our beloved whiggism . " This I thought a thing so very particular , that I begged his leave to write it ...
... death shall , by my care , be carried even across the spacious Atlantic , and settle in America itself . the sure consequences of our beloved whiggism . " This I thought a thing so very particular , that I begged his leave to write it ...
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... death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August 1772 , not neglecting the little preface , accusing himself of making so graceless a return for the civilities shown him . He had , among other elegancies about the park ...
... death . I wrote it down from his own lips one evening in August 1772 , not neglecting the little preface , accusing himself of making so graceless a return for the civilities shown him . He had , among other elegancies about the park ...
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... death , and I was spared it ! Mr. Johnson , though in general a gross feeder , kept fast in Lent , particularly the holy week , with a rigour very dangerous to his general health ; but though he had left off wine ( for religio us ...
... death , and I was spared it ! Mr. Johnson , though in general a gross feeder , kept fast in Lent , particularly the holy week , with a rigour very dangerous to his general health ; but though he had left off wine ( for religio us ...
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... death , and cried , “ Ah , my poor dear friend ! I shall never eat omelet with thee again ! " quite in an agony . The truth is , nobody suffered more from pungent sorrow at a friend's death than Johnson , though he would suffer no one ...
... death , and cried , “ Ah , my poor dear friend ! I shall never eat omelet with thee again ! " quite in an agony . The truth is , nobody suffered more from pungent sorrow at a friend's death than Johnson , though he would suffer no one ...
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