Samuel JohnsonViking Press, 1975 - 388 pages |
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Page 13
... young people and thus slowly irradiated a generation . Might have . But it has manifestly not been happening . Young people for the most part still think of Johnson , when they think of him at all , as a stupid old reactionary . And not ...
... young people and thus slowly irradiated a generation . Might have . But it has manifestly not been happening . Young people for the most part still think of Johnson , when they think of him at all , as a stupid old reactionary . And not ...
Page 68
... young gentlemen ' of Staffordshire stayed away from the school in large numbers . According to Boswell , there were only three pupils , whom he names : David Garrick and his brother Peter , and a boy called Offley , who died young ...
... young gentlemen ' of Staffordshire stayed away from the school in large numbers . According to Boswell , there were only three pupils , whom he names : David Garrick and his brother Peter , and a boy called Offley , who died young ...
Page 159
... young woman writer he had recently met . Mrs Lennox , née Ramsay , was an interesting woman , who retained her liveliness and originality throughout a life of almost incessant misfortune . Born in America - the daughter , in fact , of ...
... young woman writer he had recently met . Mrs Lennox , née Ramsay , was an interesting woman , who retained her liveliness and originality throughout a life of almost incessant misfortune . Born in America - the daughter , in fact , of ...
Contents
Introduction | 13 |
At St Johns Gate | 79 |
The Friend of Goodness | 100 |
Copyright | |
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