The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... perhaps worse , when the conversation is with difficulty kept up by a perpetual effort ? Johnson once observed to me , " Tom Tyers described me the best Sir , ' said he , ' you are like a ghost you never speak till you are spoken to ...
... perhaps worse , when the conversation is with difficulty kept up by a perpetual effort ? Johnson once observed to me , " Tom Tyers described me the best Sir , ' said he , ' you are like a ghost you never speak till you are spoken to ...
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... perhaps any Chancellor ever did , or ever will do . But , I believe , causes have been as judiciously decided as you could have done . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir . Property has been as well settled . " Johnson , however , had a noble ...
... perhaps any Chancellor ever did , or ever will do . But , I believe , causes have been as judiciously decided as you could have done . " JOHNSON : " Yes , Sir . Property has been as well settled . " Johnson , however , had a noble ...
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... perhaps , that considering the general lot of men of superior abilities , he wondered , that Fortune , who is represented as blind , should , in this instance , have been so just . " B. LORD CAMDEN II deal of inconvenience from the heat ...
... perhaps , that considering the general lot of men of superior abilities , he wondered , that Fortune , who is represented as blind , should , in this instance , have been so just . " B. LORD CAMDEN II deal of inconvenience from the heat ...
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... perhaps more amusing , talents . I told him , that one morning , when I went to breakfast with Garrick , who was very vain of his intimacy with Lord Camden , he accosted me thus- " Pray now , did you - did you meet a little lawyer ...
... perhaps more amusing , talents . I told him , that one morning , when I went to breakfast with Garrick , who was very vain of his intimacy with Lord Camden , he accosted me thus- " Pray now , did you - did you meet a little lawyer ...
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... perhaps , " I dine to - day at the other end of the town ; gentleman of great eminence called on me yesterday . He loved thus to keep things floating in conjecture : Omne " " or , " A " " 1 A poor painter , Mauritius Lowe , lived at ...
... perhaps , " I dine to - day at the other end of the town ; gentleman of great eminence called on me yesterday . He loved thus to keep things floating in conjecture : Omne " " or , " A " " 1 A poor painter , Mauritius Lowe , lived at ...
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