The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.P.F. Collier and Son, 1901 |
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... Miss Hannah More - Mudge's " Sermons " -A Printer's Devil- Quotation - Letter - writing - Bet Flint - Oratory - Beauclerk's Library - English Sermons -Blue - Stocking Clubs - Miss Monckton - Talking for Victory - A Cui Bono Man ...
... Miss Hannah More - Mudge's " Sermons " -A Printer's Devil- Quotation - Letter - writing - Bet Flint - Oratory - Beauclerk's Library - English Sermons -Blue - Stocking Clubs - Miss Monckton - Talking for Victory - A Cui Bono Man ...
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... Miss Adams - Fox and Pitt - Radcliffe's Travelling Fellowships - Prayer - Jeremy Taylor -Iffley - Dr . Nowell - Rev . Henry Bate - John Henderson - Balance of Misery , 349 · CHAPTER XVI . 1784 . Milton - Anonymous Writings - Pope ...
... Miss Adams - Fox and Pitt - Radcliffe's Travelling Fellowships - Prayer - Jeremy Taylor -Iffley - Dr . Nowell - Rev . Henry Bate - John Henderson - Balance of Misery , 349 · CHAPTER XVI . 1784 . Milton - Anonymous Writings - Pope ...
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... missed here , or observed there . " ED- WARDS . " Don't you eat supper , Sir ? " JOHNSON . " No , Sir . " ED- WARDS . " For my part , now , I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass in order to get to bed . " JOHNSON ...
... missed here , or observed there . " ED- WARDS . " Don't you eat supper , Sir ? " JOHNSON . " No , Sir . " ED- WARDS . " For my part , now , I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass in order to get to bed . " JOHNSON ...
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... MISS REYNOLDS . " And how was , it Sir ? " JOHNSON . " Why , very well for a young miss's verses ; that is to say , com- pared with excellence , nothing ; but , very well , for the person who wrote them . I am vexed at being shown ...
... MISS REYNOLDS . " And how was , it Sir ? " JOHNSON . " Why , very well for a young miss's verses ; that is to say , com- pared with excellence , nothing ; but , very well , for the person who wrote them . I am vexed at being shown ...
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... Miss Aston , whose Whig principles he had been combating , appears to me to be taken from an ingenious epigram in the ' Menagiana , ' vol . iii . p . 876 , edit . 1716 , on a young lady who appeared at a masquerade , habillée en Jésuite ...
... Miss Aston , whose Whig principles he had been combating , appears to me to be taken from an ingenious epigram in the ' Menagiana , ' vol . iii . p . 876 , edit . 1716 , on a young lady who appeared at a masquerade , habillée en Jésuite ...
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