The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 190
... seemed fond of curious specula- tion ' . This talk was not at all to the taste of Johnson who ' did not like to hear of anything concerning a future state which was not authorized by the regular canons of orthodoxy ' . He endeavoured to ...
... seemed fond of curious specula- tion ' . This talk was not at all to the taste of Johnson who ' did not like to hear of anything concerning a future state which was not authorized by the regular canons of orthodoxy ' . He endeavoured to ...
Page 255
... seemed almost assumed at times and therefore irritating , she was a responsive girl , warm - hearted and understanding . In 1777 , unknown to her father , her brother took the manuscript of her anonymous novel , Evelina , to a ...
... seemed almost assumed at times and therefore irritating , she was a responsive girl , warm - hearted and understanding . In 1777 , unknown to her father , her brother took the manuscript of her anonymous novel , Evelina , to a ...
Page 338
... seemed then to enjoy ' . Johnson , shaking his head , beheld Garrick ' with a gentle complacency ' . 3 He seemed particularly anxious that the world should remember his devoutness and sound moral principles . In Pennington's Memoirs of ...
... seemed then to enjoy ' . Johnson , shaking his head , beheld Garrick ' with a gentle complacency ' . 3 He seemed particularly anxious that the world should remember his devoutness and sound moral principles . In Pennington's Memoirs of ...
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