The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 28
... Italy was still in his thoughts . He said , " A man who has not been in Italy , is always conscious of an inferiority , from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see . The grand object of travelling is to see the shores ...
... Italy was still in his thoughts . He said , " A man who has not been in Italy , is always conscious of an inferiority , from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see . The grand object of travelling is to see the shores ...
Page 29
... Italy alone produce more books in a given time than Greece and Rome ; put England , Spain , Germany , and the northern kingdoms out of the question . - BLAKEWAY . general , the common people keep their stations . And ÆTAT . 67. ] 29 DR ...
... Italy alone produce more books in a given time than Greece and Rome ; put England , Spain , Germany , and the northern kingdoms out of the question . - BLAKEWAY . general , the common people keep their stations . And ÆTAT . 67. ] 29 DR ...
Page 43
... Italy over again , when I was at Bath . There is a great deal of matter in them . " " Mrs. Williams was angry that Thrale's family did not send regularly to her every time they heard from me while I was in the Hebrides . Little people ...
... Italy over again , when I was at Bath . There is a great deal of matter in them . " " Mrs. Williams was angry that Thrale's family did not send regularly to her every time they heard from me while I was in the Hebrides . Little people ...
Page 75
... Italian tongues . " Such a purpose , so expressed , at the age of sixty - seven , is admirable and encouraging ; and it must impress all the thinking part of my readers with a consolatory confidence in habitual devotion , when they see ...
... Italian tongues . " Such a purpose , so expressed , at the age of sixty - seven , is admirable and encouraging ; and it must impress all the thinking part of my readers with a consolatory confidence in habitual devotion , when they see ...
Page 81
... Italian , and Mr. Thrale gave him an hundred in the spring ; so that he is yet in no difficulties . " Colman has bought Foote's patent , and is to allow Foote for life sixteen hundred pounds a year , as Reynolds told me , and to allow ...
... Italian , and Mr. Thrale gave him an hundred in the spring ; so that he is yet in no difficulties . " Colman has bought Foote's patent , and is to allow Foote for life sixteen hundred pounds a year , as Reynolds told me , and to allow ...
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