The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 51
... drink . Johnson himself did not drink alcohol any more . He had discovered , while living with Edmund Hector in Birmingham , how difficult it was for him to stop drinking wine or punch once he had had one glass ; so he had made up his ...
... drink . Johnson himself did not drink alcohol any more . He had discovered , while living with Edmund Hector in Birmingham , how difficult it was for him to stop drinking wine or punch once he had had one glass ; so he had made up his ...
Page 68
... drinking . And therefore he wondered why there were not more drunkards , for all could drink tho ' all could not fuck.'1 But even if these two were , in his opinion , the greatest pleasures , he denied himself the pleasures of them both ...
... drinking . And therefore he wondered why there were not more drunkards , for all could drink tho ' all could not fuck.'1 But even if these two were , in his opinion , the greatest pleasures , he denied himself the pleasures of them both ...
Page 172
... drink brandy . . . . Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him . ' He rarely censured a man for drinking too much ; when once a friend appeared drunk at a tavern a mutual acquaintance , thinking to make trouble ...
... drink brandy . . . . Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him . ' He rarely censured a man for drinking too much ; when once a friend appeared drunk at a tavern a mutual acquaintance , thinking to make trouble ...
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