The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... honour of having been thus noticed by Dr. Johnson . When he was gone , I said to Johnson , I thought him but a weak man . JOHNSON : " Why yes , Sir . Here is a man who has passed through life without experience : yet I would rather have ...
... honour of having been thus noticed by Dr. Johnson . When he was gone , I said to Johnson , I thought him but a weak man . JOHNSON : " Why yes , Sir . Here is a man who has passed through life without experience : yet I would rather have ...
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... honours of the State . Sir William Scott informs me that , upon the death of the late Lord Lichfield , who was Chancellor of the University of Oxford , he said to Johnson : " What a pity it is , Sir , that you did not follow the ...
... honours of the State . Sir William Scott informs me that , upon the death of the late Lord Lichfield , who was Chancellor of the University of Oxford , he said to Johnson : " What a pity it is , Sir , that you did not follow the ...
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... honours of the tea - table . I observed that he would not even look at a proof - sheet of his " Life of Waller " on Good Friday . Mr. Allen , the printer , brought a book on agriculture , which was printed , and was soon to be published ...
... honours of the tea - table . I observed that he would not even look at a proof - sheet of his " Life of Waller " on Good Friday . Mr. Allen , the printer , brought a book on agriculture , which was printed , and was soon to be published ...
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James Boswell. instance of a gentleman , who I thought was not dis- honoured by it . JOHNSON : " Ay , but he was , Sir . He could not mouth and strut as he used to do , after having been there . People are not willing to ask a man to ...
James Boswell. instance of a gentleman , who I thought was not dis- honoured by it . JOHNSON : " Ay , but he was , Sir . He could not mouth and strut as he used to do , after having been there . People are not willing to ask a man to ...
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... honour in France , who being asked by the Queen what o'clock it was , answered , " What your Majesty pleases . " 1 He admitted that Mr. Burke's classical pun upon Mr. Wilkes's being carried on the shoulders of the mob , << numerisque ...
... honour in France , who being asked by the Queen what o'clock it was , answered , " What your Majesty pleases . " 1 He admitted that Mr. Burke's classical pun upon Mr. Wilkes's being carried on the shoulders of the mob , << numerisque ...
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