The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1900 |
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... remarks , so as to make very pleasant reading . " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , most modern travellers in Europe who have published their travels , have been laughed at : I would not have you added to the number.1 The world is now not ...
... remarks , so as to make very pleasant reading . " JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , most modern travellers in Europe who have published their travels , have been laughed at : I would not have you added to the number.1 The world is now not ...
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... remarked that Fleet Street was the most cheerful scene in the world . " Fleet Street , " said I , " is in my mind more delightful than Tempé . " JOHNSON : " Ay , Sir ; but let it be compared with Mull . " There was a very numerous ...
... remarked that Fleet Street was the most cheerful scene in the world . " Fleet Street , " said I , " is in my mind more delightful than Tempé . " JOHNSON : " Ay , Sir ; but let it be compared with Mull . " There was a very numerous ...
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... remark to Johnson that I might have his own thoughts on the subject . JOHNSON : " Sir , it would have been better that I had been of a profession . I ought to have been a lawyer . " BOSWELL : " I do not think , Sir , it would have been ...
... remark to Johnson that I might have his own thoughts on the subject . JOHNSON : " Sir , it would have been better that I had been of a profession . I ought to have been a lawyer . " BOSWELL : " I do not think , Sir , it would have been ...
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... remarks on ploughing , sowing , and other farming opera- tions . He seemed to be an absurd profane fellow , and had introduced in his book many sneers at religion , with equal ignorance and conceit . Dr. Johnson permitted me to read ...
... remarks on ploughing , sowing , and other farming opera- tions . He seemed to be an absurd profane fellow , and had introduced in his book many sneers at religion , with equal ignorance and conceit . Dr. Johnson permitted me to read ...
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... If excess in drink- ing be meant , the remark is acutely just . But surely , a moderate use of wine gives a gaiety of spirits which water - drinkers know not . B. WINE AND WATER 25 when they say they have had 24 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... If excess in drink- ing be meant , the remark is acutely just . But surely , a moderate use of wine gives a gaiety of spirits which water - drinkers know not . B. WINE AND WATER 25 when they say they have had 24 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
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