The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... live rich , than to die rich . " EDWARDS : " I wish I had continued at college . " JOHNSON : " Why do you wish that , Sir ? " EDWARDS : " Because I think I should have had a much easier life than mine has been . I should have been a ...
... live rich , than to die rich . " EDWARDS : " I wish I had continued at college . " JOHNSON : " Why do you wish that , Sir ? " EDWARDS : " Because I think I should have had a much easier life than mine has been . I should have been a ...
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... live , Sir ? For my part , I must have my regular meals , and a glass of good wine . I find I require it . JOHNSON " I now drink no wine , Sir . Early in life I drank wine : for many years I drank none , I then for some years drank a ...
... live , Sir ? For my part , I must have my regular meals , and a glass of good wine . I find I require it . JOHNSON " I now drink no wine , Sir . Early in life I drank wine : for many years I drank none , I then for some years drank a ...
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... lives . It is the same thing to a college , which is a permanent society , whether it gets the money now or twenty years hence ; and I would wish to make my relations or friends feel the benefit of it . " This interview confirmed my ...
... lives . It is the same thing to a college , which is a permanent society , whether it gets the money now or twenty years hence ; and I would wish to make my relations or friends feel the benefit of it . " This interview confirmed my ...
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... live at my house . I was obliged to tell her , that you would be in as respectable a situation in my house as in hers . Sir , the insolence of wealth will creep out . " Bos- WELL " She has a little both of the insolence of wealth , and ...
... live at my house . I was obliged to tell her , that you would be in as respectable a situation in my house as in hers . Sir , the insolence of wealth will creep out . " Bos- WELL " She has a little both of the insolence of wealth , and ...
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... Lives of the Poets impartially ? He was the first that brought Whig and Tory into a Dictionary . And what do you think of his definition of excise ? Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire ? " Then taking down the ...
... Lives of the Poets impartially ? He was the first that brought Whig and Tory into a Dictionary . And what do you think of his definition of excise ? Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire ? " Then taking down the ...
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