The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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Page 69
... wife ought not greatly to resent it ' . ' A wife should study to reclaim her husband by more attention to please him . Sir , a man will not once in a hundred instances leave his wife and go to a harlot , if his wife has not been ...
... wife ought not greatly to resent it ' . ' A wife should study to reclaim her husband by more attention to please him . Sir , a man will not once in a hundred instances leave his wife and go to a harlot , if his wife has not been ...
Page 86
Christopher Hibbert. Robert Dodsley , the bookseller wife : ' You know poor Dodsley has lost his wife . ... I do hope he will not suffer so much as I yet suffer for the loss of mine .... I have ever since seemed to myself broken off from ...
Christopher Hibbert. Robert Dodsley , the bookseller wife : ' You know poor Dodsley has lost his wife . ... I do hope he will not suffer so much as I yet suffer for the loss of mine .... I have ever since seemed to myself broken off from ...
Page 99
... wife without any derogation from dear Tetty's memory ' . Marriage , he believed , was ' the best state for a man in general ' ; even ill - assorted marriages were ' preferable to cheerless celibacy ' , pro- vided they did not take place ...
... wife without any derogation from dear Tetty's memory ' . Marriage , he believed , was ' the best state for a man in general ' ; even ill - assorted marriages were ' preferable to cheerless celibacy ' , pro- vided they did not take place ...
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