The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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... enjoyed these days , the walks home from school , jumping over the fence rails , vaulting over the stiles and climbing trees in the fields . He enjoyed the holidays , too - the annual fairs , the crowds that came to Lichfield races ...
... enjoyed these days , the walks home from school , jumping over the fence rails , vaulting over the stiles and climbing trees in the fields . He enjoyed the holidays , too - the annual fairs , the crowds that came to Lichfield races ...
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... enjoyed writing sermons — in so far as he enjoyed writing at all — and he eventually became so adept at producing them for his clerical friends and acquaintances that he could sit down after dinner to write a long one and get it into ...
... enjoyed writing sermons — in so far as he enjoyed writing at all — and he eventually became so adept at producing them for his clerical friends and acquaintances that he could sit down after dinner to write a long one and get it into ...
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... enjoyed in imagination the comforts ' he could then command and ' seemed to be in high glee ' . He put up a leg on each side of the grate at the Saracen's Head and said , with a mock solemnity by way of soliloquy , but loud enough for ...
... enjoyed in imagination the comforts ' he could then command and ' seemed to be in high glee ' . He put up a leg on each side of the grate at the Saracen's Head and said , with a mock solemnity by way of soliloquy , but loud enough for ...
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