Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged)Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 228 strani |
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... mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be acknowledged for favours received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I ...
... mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship between us . If gratitude should be acknowledged for favours received , I have this opportunity , my dear Sir , most sincerely to thank you for the many happy hours which I ...
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... mentioning this early compliment : adding , with a smile , that this was as high a proof of his merit as he could conceive . ' His next instructor in English was LICHFIELD SCHOOL 19 a master , whom , when he 18 THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... mentioning this early compliment : adding , with a smile , that this was as high a proof of his merit as he could conceive . ' His next instructor in English was LICHFIELD SCHOOL 19 a master , whom , when he 18 THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... mentioned in some preface , as one of the restorers of learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years he told me , was not works of ...
... mentioned in some preface , as one of the restorers of learning . His curiosity having been thus excited , he sat down with avidity , and read a great part of the book . What he read during these two years he told me , was not works of ...
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... mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination by his mother , who continued her pious care with assiduity , but , in his opinion , not with . judgement . Sunday ( said he ) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy . My ...
... mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination by his mother , who continued her pious care with assiduity , but , in his opinion , not with . judgement . Sunday ( said he ) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy . My ...
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... mentioned to him this account as given me by Dr. Adams , he said , ' Ah , Sir , I was mad and violent . It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick . I was miserably poor , and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ...
... mentioned to him this account as given me by Dr. Adams , he said , ' Ah , Sir , I was mad and violent . It was bitterness which they mistook for frolick . I was miserably poor , and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ...
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acquaintance admiration ÆTAT afterwards answered appeared asked Beauclerk BENNET LANGTON Bishop booksellers Boswell Boswell's Burke Burney celebrated character Cibber conversation David Garrick dear Sir death Dictionary Dilly dined dinner Dodsley drink Edwards eminent favour Francis Barber Garrick gave gentleman give Goldsmith happy heard Hebrides honour hope humour imagination JAMES BOSWELL kind King knew labour lady Langton language letter Lichfield Literary Club literature lived London Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind nature never observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College Percy pleased pleasure poet Pope publick recollect respect Richardson Robert Dodsley SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seemed servant shewed Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds spirit strong supposed talk tell thing Thomas Warton thought Thrale tion told topicks truth Wilkes William wine wish wonder write wrote