Mr. Oddity, Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell Publishing Company, 1951 - 348 pages |
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Page 52
... returned to his native town in the summer of 1737 , and stayed only long enough to finish Irene , and pack up . This time he took Mrs. Johnson with him . Her daughter , Lucy , went to live with his mother , whom she helped out in the ...
... returned to his native town in the summer of 1737 , and stayed only long enough to finish Irene , and pack up . This time he took Mrs. Johnson with him . Her daughter , Lucy , went to live with his mother , whom she helped out in the ...
Page 57
... returned without the cup . • The stern times demanded stern measures . In the dead of winter , by coach or by wagon , in which only the poorest pas- sengers traveled , he returned to Lichfield and mortgaged the Johnson house for eighty ...
... returned without the cup . • The stern times demanded stern measures . In the dead of winter , by coach or by wagon , in which only the poorest pas- sengers traveled , he returned to Lichfield and mortgaged the Johnson house for eighty ...
Page 249
... returned to Lichfield : " I dined today at Stowe Hill , and am come away to write my letter . Never surely was I such a writer before . Do you keep my letters ? I am not of your opinion that I shall not like to read them hereafter ; for ...
... returned to Lichfield : " I dined today at Stowe Hill , and am come away to write my letter . Never surely was I such a writer before . Do you keep my letters ? I am not of your opinion that I shall not like to read them hereafter ; for ...
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