The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1878 |
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... pleasure of English society . His good - nature and social feeling always inclined him to endeavour to produce that effect ; which was so well known , that when he appeared , he was hailed as the harbinger of festivity . Sir Joshua was ...
... pleasure of English society . His good - nature and social feeling always inclined him to endeavour to produce that effect ; which was so well known , that when he appeared , he was hailed as the harbinger of festivity . Sir Joshua was ...
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... pleasure , when silent , in writing down the talk of others , even to their Arlequiniana , for Harlequin too must talk in France . Of their flock , the bell - weather is the Menagiana . Yet the four volumes are eclipsed by the singular ...
... pleasure , when silent , in writing down the talk of others , even to their Arlequiniana , for Harlequin too must talk in France . Of their flock , the bell - weather is the Menagiana . Yet the four volumes are eclipsed by the singular ...
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... pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind . To those who are weak enough to think this a degrading task , and the time and labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the ...
... pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind . To those who are weak enough to think this a degrading task , and the time and labour which have been devoted to it misemployed , I shall content myself with opposing the authority of the ...
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... pleasure in reciting the anecdotes of beggary ! " One day , however , hearing me praise a favourite friend with par- tial tenderness and true esteem : " Why do you like that man's acquaintance so ? " said he . " Because , " replied I ...
... pleasure in reciting the anecdotes of beggary ! " One day , however , hearing me praise a favourite friend with par- tial tenderness and true esteem : " Why do you like that man's acquaintance so ? " said he . " Because , " replied I ...
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... pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy barefooted , who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him ; no very easy operation , as his size was remarkably large . His defective sight , indeed , prevented him from enjoying the ...
... pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy barefooted , who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him ; no very easy operation , as his size was remarkably large . His defective sight , indeed , prevented him from enjoying the ...
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