The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 5Bell, 1889 |
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... lived many years the object of Royal regard and private respect ; and whom I cannot name without expressing my very grateful sense of the uniform kindness which he has been pleased to shew me . The friends of Doctor Johnson can best ...
... lived many years the object of Royal regard and private respect ; and whom I cannot name without expressing my very grateful sense of the uniform kindness which he has been pleased to shew me . The friends of Doctor Johnson can best ...
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... lived in it magnificently . His own ample fortune , with the addition of his salary , enabled him to be splendidly hospitable . It may be fortunate for an individual amongst ourselves to be Lord Chief Baron , and a most worthy man , now ...
... lived in it magnificently . His own ample fortune , with the addition of his salary , enabled him to be splendidly hospitable . It may be fortunate for an individual amongst ourselves to be Lord Chief Baron , and a most worthy man , now ...
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... lived on good terms with Mr. Hume , though I have frankly told him , I was not clear that it was right in me to keep company with him . " But , " said I , " how much better are you than your books ! " He was cheerful , obliging , and ...
... lived on good terms with Mr. Hume , though I have frankly told him , I was not clear that it was right in me to keep company with him . " But , " said I , " how much better are you than your books ! " He was cheerful , obliging , and ...
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... lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus , for which he was always taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a club in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains ...
... lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus , for which he was always taking subscriptions ; and that he presented Foote to a club in the following singular manner : " This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains ...
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... lived , and in which David Rizzio was murdered , and also the state rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things , serious or comical . I overheard him repeat- ing here in a kind of muttering tone , a line of the old ...
... lived , and in which David Rizzio was murdered , and also the state rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all sorts of things , serious or comical . I overheard him repeat- ing here in a kind of muttering tone , a line of the old ...
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