Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... MADAM , ' Though I am afraid your ill- ness leaves you little leisure for the reception of airy civilities , yet I cannot forbear to pay you my con- gratulations on the new year ; and to declare my wishes that your years to come may be ...
... MADAM , ' Though I am afraid your ill- ness leaves you little leisure for the reception of airy civilities , yet I cannot forbear to pay you my con- gratulations on the new year ; and to declare my wishes that your years to come may be ...
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... Madam , I won't answer that I shan't contradict her again , if she provokes me as she did then ; but a less provocation I will withstand . I believe I am not high in her good graces already ; and I begin ( added he , laughing heartily ) ...
... Madam , I won't answer that I shan't contradict her again , if she provokes me as she did then ; but a less provocation I will withstand . I believe I am not high in her good graces already ; and I begin ( added he , laughing heartily ) ...
Stran 65
... Madam , you shall hear no more of it ; yet I will defend myself in every part and in every atom . " ... Thursday morning , Dr. Johnson went to town for some days , but not before Mrs. Thrale read him a very serious lecture upon giving ...
... Madam , you shall hear no more of it ; yet I will defend myself in every part and in every atom . " ... Thursday morning , Dr. Johnson went to town for some days , but not before Mrs. Thrale read him a very serious lecture upon giving ...
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... Madam , has said it as correctly as it could be . ' Nor was it only in the dignitaries of the Church that Johnson required a particular decorum and delicacy of behaviour ; he justly considered that the clergy , as persons set apart for ...
... Madam , has said it as correctly as it could be . ' Nor was it only in the dignitaries of the Church that Johnson required a particular decorum and delicacy of behaviour ; he justly considered that the clergy , as persons set apart for ...
Stran 82
... Madam , you often provoke me to say severe things by unreasonable commendation . If you would not call for my praise , I would not give you my censure ; but it constantly moves my indignation to be applied to , to speak well of a thing ...
... Madam , you often provoke me to say severe things by unreasonable commendation . If you would not call for my praise , I would not give you my censure ; but it constantly moves my indignation to be applied to , to speak well of a thing ...
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