The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... JOHNSON : " Ay , Sir ; but let it be compared with Mull . " There was a very numerous congregation to - day at St. Clement's Church , which Dr. Johnson said he observed with pleasure . And now I am to give a pretty full account of one ...
... JOHNSON : " Ay , Sir ; but let it be compared with Mull . " There was a very numerous congregation to - day at St. Clement's Church , which Dr. Johnson said he observed with pleasure . And now I am to give a pretty full account of one ...
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... Johnson was going home , and that he had better accompany him now . So Edwards walked along with us , I eagerly assisting_to keep up the conversation . Mr. Edwards informed Dr. Johnson that he had practised long as a solicitor in ...
... Johnson was going home , and that he had better accompany him now . So Edwards walked along with us , I eagerly assisting_to keep up the conversation . Mr. Edwards informed Dr. Johnson that he had practised long as a solicitor in ...
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... JOHNSON : " I shall be sixty - eight next birthday . Come , Sir , drink water , and put in for a hundred . " Mr. Edwards mentioned a gentleman who had left his whole fortune to Pembroke College . JOHNSON : " Whether to leave one's whole ...
... JOHNSON : " I shall be sixty - eight next birthday . Come , Sir , drink water , and put in for a hundred . " Mr. Edwards mentioned a gentleman who had left his whole fortune to Pembroke College . JOHNSON : " Whether to leave one's whole ...
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... Johnson his fine house and lands near Beaconsfield , Johnson coolly said , " Non equidem invideo ; miror magis . " " Yet no man had a higher notion of the dignity of literature than Johnson , or was more determined in maintaining the ...
... Johnson his fine house and lands near Beaconsfield , Johnson coolly said , " Non equidem invideo ; miror magis . " " Yet no man had a higher notion of the dignity of literature than Johnson , or was more determined in maintaining the ...
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... JOHNSON : " It was refused by one of the houses ; but I should have thought it would succeed , not from any great excellence in the writing , but from the novelty , and the general spirit and gaiety of the piece , which keeps the ...
... JOHNSON : " It was refused by one of the houses ; but I should have thought it would succeed , not from any great excellence in the writing , but from the novelty , and the general spirit and gaiety of the piece , which keeps the ...
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