The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Three VolumesHenry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... She faid , fhe would fend to Mr. Pulteney , who , fhe fuppofed , could inform her . So then , to prevent her from making herself ridiculous , Lord Orrery sent her Grace a note , in which he gave her to un- derstand what was meant . " 1 ...
... She faid , fhe would fend to Mr. Pulteney , who , fhe fuppofed , could inform her . So then , to prevent her from making herself ridiculous , Lord Orrery sent her Grace a note , in which he gave her to un- derstand what was meant . " 1 ...
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... She is willing you should think he knows them , but she does not fay fhe does . " BOSWELL . " Mr. Harris , who was prefent , agreed with her . " JOHN- SON . " Harris was laughing at her , Sir . Harris is a found fullen fcholar ; he does ...
... She is willing you should think he knows them , but she does not fay fhe does . " BOSWELL . " Mr. Harris , who was prefent , agreed with her . " JOHN- SON . " Harris was laughing at her , Sir . Harris is a found fullen fcholar ; he does ...
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... She muft have been an animal , a beaft . " JOHNSON . " Sir , she was a speaking cat . " I mentioned to him that I had become very weary in a company where I heard not a single intellectual sentence , except that " a man who had been ...
... She muft have been an animal , a beaft . " JOHNSON . " Sir , she was a speaking cat . " I mentioned to him that I had become very weary in a company where I heard not a single intellectual sentence , except that " a man who had been ...
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... she is ever seen in liquor , is ruined ; the mafon may get himself drunk as often as he pleases , with little loss of character ; nay , may let his wife and children ftarve . " JOHNSON . " Madam , you must confider , if the mafon does ...
... she is ever seen in liquor , is ruined ; the mafon may get himself drunk as often as he pleases , with little loss of character ; nay , may let his wife and children ftarve . " JOHNSON . " Madam , you must confider , if the mafon does ...
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... She is in the right to flatter Garrick . She is in the right for two reafons ; first , because she has the world with her , who have been praifing Garrick these thirty years ; and fecondly , becaufe fhe is rewarded for it by Garrick ...
... She is in the right to flatter Garrick . She is in the right for two reafons ; first , because she has the world with her , who have been praifing Garrick these thirty years ; and fecondly , becaufe fhe is rewarded for it by Garrick ...
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