The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... bishop of Dromore , who was long inti- mately acquainted with him , and has preserved a few anec- dotes concerning him , regretting that he was not a more diligent collector , informs me , that " when a boy he was immoderately fond of ...
... bishop of Dromore , who was long inti- mately acquainted with him , and has preserved a few anec- dotes concerning him , regretting that he was not a more diligent collector , informs me , that " when a boy he was immoderately fond of ...
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... bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools : " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ; in the other , I learned much from the master , but little in the school . " The bishop also informs me ...
... bishop of Dromore , his progress at his two grammar schools : " At one , I learned much in the school , but little from the master ; in the other , I learned much from the master , but little in the school . " The bishop also informs me ...
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... bishop of Oxon . " His father seemed very full of the merits of his son , and told the company he was a good scholar , and a poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and manner appeared strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and ...
... bishop of Oxon . " His father seemed very full of the merits of his son , and told the company he was a good scholar , and a poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and manner appeared strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and ...
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... Bishop Percy has often heard him , he states , humming and forming periods , in low whispers to himself , when shallow ob- servers thought he was muttering prayers . His own practice was , perhaps , alluded to by Johnson , in the ...
... Bishop Percy has often heard him , he states , humming and forming periods , in low whispers to himself , when shallow ob- servers thought he was muttering prayers . His own practice was , perhaps , alluded to by Johnson , in the ...
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... bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me : " The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned . But I have heard him say , what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that ...
... bishop of Dromore observes in a letter to me : " The pleasure he took in vexing the tutors and fellows has been often mentioned . But I have heard him say , what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that ...
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