Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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Pagina 14
... once launched from the metropolis he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in set- ting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale in particular , whose en- chantment over him seldom failed , I was much obliged . It ...
... once launched from the metropolis he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in set- ting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale in particular , whose en- chantment over him seldom failed , I was much obliged . It ...
Pagina 18
... once to me at Wilton , with a happy pleas- antry , and some truth , that ' Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary , were it not for his bow - wow way : ' but I admit the truth of this only on some occasions . The ...
... once to me at Wilton , with a happy pleas- antry , and some truth , that ' Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary , were it not for his bow - wow way : ' but I admit the truth of this only on some occasions . The ...
Pagina 23
... once united me to him . He told me that , before I came in , the Doctor had unluckily had a bad specimen of Scottish . cleanliness ' . He then drank no fermented liquor . He asked to have his lemonade made sweeter ; upon which the ...
... once united me to him . He told me that , before I came in , the Doctor had unluckily had a bad specimen of Scottish . cleanliness ' . He then drank no fermented liquor . He asked to have his lemonade made sweeter ; upon which the ...
Pagina 27
... once a good companion , and a good chris- tian ; which I think is saying enough . Yet it is but justice to record , that once , when he was in a dangerous illness , he was watched with the anxious apprehension of a general calamity ...
... once a good companion , and a good chris- tian ; which I think is saying enough . Yet it is but justice to record , that once , when he was in a dangerous illness , he was watched with the anxious apprehension of a general calamity ...
Pagina 35
... once made a good joke ' . What I 1 We learn , post , Oct. 29 , that Robertson was cautious in his talk , though we see here that he had much more courage than the profess- ors of Aberdeen or Glasgow . 2 This was one of the points upon ...
... once made a good joke ' . What I 1 We learn , post , Oct. 29 , that Robertson was cautious in his talk , though we see here that he had much more courage than the profess- ors of Aberdeen or Glasgow . 2 This was one of the points upon ...
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