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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... talked a great deal to him , as to a fchool - boy , of the courfe of his education , and other particulars . When he afterwards came to know and understand the high character of this great man , he recollected his condefcenfion with ...
... talked a great deal to him , as to a fchool - boy , of the courfe of his education , and other particulars . When he afterwards came to know and understand the high character of this great man , he recollected his condefcenfion with ...
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... talked of fome time or other publishing this curi- ous life . MRS . THRALE . I think you had as well let alone that publication . To discover fuch weakness exposes a man when he is gone . " JOHN- SON . " Nay , it is an honeft picture of ...
... talked of fome time or other publishing this curi- ous life . MRS . THRALE . I think you had as well let alone that publication . To discover fuch weakness exposes a man when he is gone . " JOHN- SON . " Nay , it is an honeft picture of ...
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... what Dr. Johnson related , and that he may have been talking of the fame ludicrous tragical subject that Mr. Hume had mentioned . 1778 . tat . 69 . 1 He talked of C 2 He DR . JOHNSON . 19 at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He ...
... what Dr. Johnson related , and that he may have been talking of the fame ludicrous tragical subject that Mr. Hume had mentioned . 1778 . tat . 69 . 1 He talked of C 2 He DR . JOHNSON . 19 at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He ...
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... talked of going to Streatham that night . TAYLOR . " You'll be robbed if you do ; or you must shoot a highwayman . Now I would rather be robbed than do that : I would not fhoot a high- wayman . " JOHNSON . " But I would rather shoot him ...
... talked of going to Streatham that night . TAYLOR . " You'll be robbed if you do ; or you must shoot a highwayman . Now I would rather be robbed than do that : I would not fhoot a high- wayman . " JOHNSON . " But I would rather shoot him ...
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... talked of him to Mr. Dunning a few days before , and had faid , that in his company we did not fo much interchange converfation , as liften to him ; and that Dunning obferved , upon this , " One is always willing to listen to Dr ...
... talked of him to Mr. Dunning a few days before , and had faid , that in his company we did not fo much interchange converfation , as liften to him ; and that Dunning obferved , upon this , " One is always willing to listen to Dr ...
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