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Pagina 117
... and had it not been that I had Dr. Johnson to contemplate , I should have sunk into dejection , but his firmness supported I looked at him as a man whose head is turning giddy at sea looks at a rock or any fixed object .
... and had it not been that I had Dr. Johnson to contemplate , I should have sunk into dejection , but his firmness supported I looked at him as a man whose head is turning giddy at sea looks at a rock or any fixed object .
Pagina 171
He was too proud to submit , even for a moment , to be the object of ridicule , and instantly retaliated with such keen sarcastic wit , and such a variety of degrading images , of every one of which I was the object , that though I can ...
He was too proud to submit , even for a moment , to be the object of ridicule , and instantly retaliated with such keen sarcastic wit , and such a variety of degrading images , of every one of which I was the object , that though I can ...
Pagina 206
“ Had she green other part of the present work , my principal object was to delineate Dr. Johnson's inanners and character . In justice to him I would not omit an anecdote which , though in some degree to my own disadvantage , exhibits ...
“ Had she green other part of the present work , my principal object was to delineate Dr. Johnson's inanners and character . In justice to him I would not omit an anecdote which , though in some degree to my own disadvantage , exhibits ...
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Ogden on Prayer Aphoristic writing Edinburgh surveyed | 19 |
Poetry and dictionarywriting Scepticism Eternal necessity | 28 |
Dr Watson Literature and patronage Writing and conversation | 37 |
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