The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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... Dr Johnson said nothing at the time : but inflammable particles were collecting for a cloud to burst . In a little while Dr Percy said something more in disparagement of Pennant . JOHNSON ( pointedly ) ' This is the resentment of a ...
... Dr Johnson said nothing at the time : but inflammable particles were collecting for a cloud to burst . In a little while Dr Percy said something more in disparagement of Pennant . JOHNSON ( pointedly ) ' This is the resentment of a ...
Page 258
... Dr Johnson's conversation when she was invited to stay at Streatham the following year . By then , knowing how highly he had praised her Evelina , comparing it favourably with the work of Samuel Richardson , she had developed ' so true ...
... Dr Johnson's conversation when she was invited to stay at Streatham the following year . By then , knowing how highly he had praised her Evelina , comparing it favourably with the work of Samuel Richardson , she had developed ' so true ...
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Christopher Hibbert. KRUTCH , JOSEPH WOOD , Samuel Johnson , Harbinger Books edn 1963 ; Har- court , Brace , 1944 LADELL , R. M. " The Neurosis of Dr Samuel Johnson ' , British Journal of Medical Psychology , ix ( 1929 ) , 314-23 ...
Christopher Hibbert. KRUTCH , JOSEPH WOOD , Samuel Johnson , Harbinger Books edn 1963 ; Har- court , Brace , 1944 LADELL , R. M. " The Neurosis of Dr Samuel Johnson ' , British Journal of Medical Psychology , ix ( 1929 ) , 314-23 ...
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