The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 81
... miss a part of the lecture , it is lost ; you cannot go back , as you do upon a book . " Dr. Scott agreed with him . " But yet , " said I , " Dr. Scott , you yourself gave lectures at Oxford . " He smiled . You laughed , then , " said I ...
... miss a part of the lecture , it is lost ; you cannot go back , as you do upon a book . " Dr. Scott agreed with him . " But yet , " said I , " Dr. Scott , you yourself gave lectures at Oxford . " He smiled . You laughed , then , " said I ...
Page 84
... Miss Hannah More , who lived with her , and whom she called her chaplain ; Mrs. Boscawen1 , Mrs. Elizabeth Carter , sir Joshua Rey- nolds , Dr. Burney , Dr. Johnson , and myself . We found ourselves very elegantly entertained at her ...
... Miss Hannah More , who lived with her , and whom she called her chaplain ; Mrs. Boscawen1 , Mrs. Elizabeth Carter , sir Joshua Rey- nolds , Dr. Burney , Dr. Johnson , and myself . We found ourselves very elegantly entertained at her ...
Page 87
... Miss Hannah More slyly hid her face behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her . His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule , when he did not intend it : he there- fore resolved to assume ...
... Miss Hannah More slyly hid her face behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her . His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule , when he did not intend it : he there- fore resolved to assume ...
Page 94
... Miss Hannah More has admirably described a blue - stocking club in her Bas Bleu , a poem in which many of the persons who were most con- spicuous there are mentioned . Johnson was prevailed with to come sometimes into these circles ...
... Miss Hannah More has admirably described a blue - stocking club in her Bas Bleu , a poem in which many of the persons who were most con- spicuous there are mentioned . Johnson was prevailed with to come sometimes into these circles ...
Page 95
... Miss Monck- ton's , where I certainly was in extraordinary spirits , and above all fear or awe . In the midst of a great number of persons of the first rank , amongst whom I recollect with confusion a noble lady of the most stately ...
... Miss Monck- ton's , where I certainly was in extraordinary spirits , and above all fear or awe . In the midst of a great number of persons of the first rank , amongst whom I recollect with confusion a noble lady of the most stately ...
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