The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 197
... particularly for their perversion of the idea of refinement in the use of a water - glass , a very strange perversion indeed he thought it . . . . It was amazing , ' she added , ' so dim- sighted as Dr Johnson was , how very observant ...
... particularly for their perversion of the idea of refinement in the use of a water - glass , a very strange perversion indeed he thought it . . . . It was amazing , ' she added , ' so dim- sighted as Dr Johnson was , how very observant ...
Page 199
... particularly appealed to Johnson . ' Adventitious accom- plishments may be possessed by all ranks , ' he told Dr William Maxwell , ' but one may easily distinguish the born gentlewoman . ' If the gentlewoman were also young and lively ...
... particularly appealed to Johnson . ' Adventitious accom- plishments may be possessed by all ranks , ' he told Dr William Maxwell , ' but one may easily distinguish the born gentlewoman . ' If the gentlewoman were also young and lively ...
Page 253
... particularly common and familiar subjects , narrations , essays , letters , etc. , nothing could be more injudicious than his manner , beginning every period with a pompous accent , and reading it with a whine , or with a kind of ...
... particularly common and familiar subjects , narrations , essays , letters , etc. , nothing could be more injudicious than his manner , beginning every period with a pompous accent , and reading it with a whine , or with a kind of ...
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