Mr. Oddity, Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Bell Publishing Company, 1951 - 348 pages |
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... sure , if you should go first - and he would do it better than anybody , " she replied . " But then , he would do it maliciously , " Johnson observed . ( Goldsmith went first , and it turned out to be Hawkins who did it maliciously ...
... sure , if you should go first - and he would do it better than anybody , " she replied . " But then , he would do it maliciously , " Johnson observed . ( Goldsmith went first , and it turned out to be Hawkins who did it maliciously ...
Page 130
... sure ; he only thought he knew the sentiments to be sincere . II Nineteen years had passed since the bitter winter of 1740 when he went to Lichfield to mortgage the Johnson house . In all that time he had not seen her . Yet he knew she ...
... sure ; he only thought he knew the sentiments to be sincere . II Nineteen years had passed since the bitter winter of 1740 when he went to Lichfield to mortgage the Johnson house . In all that time he had not seen her . Yet he knew she ...
Page 182
... sure , in the laxity of colloquial speech , various kinds of greatness ; a man may be a great tobacconist , a man may be a great painter , he may be likewise a great mimic : now you may be the one , and Garrick the other , and yet ...
... sure , in the laxity of colloquial speech , various kinds of greatness ; a man may be a great tobacconist , a man may be a great painter , he may be likewise a great mimic : now you may be the one , and Garrick the other , and yet ...
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