Life of Samuel JohnsonScott, Foresman, 1923 - 563 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... death . The forger of a note , the thief of some shillings , like the assassin of a whole family , was led in a procession through the streets , a disorderly crowd of curiosity - seekers tagging after him , to the public gallows , and ...
... death . The forger of a note , the thief of some shillings , like the assassin of a whole family , was led in a procession through the streets , a disorderly crowd of curiosity - seekers tagging after him , to the public gallows , and ...
Pagina 23
... death . " His book develops this idea logically in regard to the minutest details of life . 2. An Athenian blockhead . When one John Gilbert Cooper was praised one day in Johnson's presence as a good scholar , Johnson re- torted : " Yes ...
... death . " His book develops this idea logically in regard to the minutest details of life . 2. An Athenian blockhead . When one John Gilbert Cooper was praised one day in Johnson's presence as a good scholar , Johnson re- torted : " Yes ...
Pagina 25
... death of my mother ; an event which I pray God may be very remote . I now there- fore see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of my mind be not debilitated by poverty , and that indigence do ...
... death of my mother ; an event which I pray God may be very remote . I now there- fore see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of my mind be not debilitated by poverty , and that indigence do ...
Pagina 30
... death , he described this early friend thus , " He was a vicious man , but very kind to me . If you call a dog Hervey , I shall love him . " In the course of the summer he returned to Lichfield , where he had left Mrs. Johnson . His ...
... death , he described this early friend thus , " He was a vicious man , but very kind to me . If you call a dog Hervey , I shall love him . " In the course of the summer he returned to Lichfield , where he had left Mrs. Johnson . His ...
Pagina 31
... ' And such was the tenderness of his conscience that a short time before his death he expressed his regret for his having been the author of fictions , which had passed for realities . " 1. Savage . See Appendix A , page 545 .
... ' And such was the tenderness of his conscience that a short time before his death he expressed his regret for his having been the author of fictions , which had passed for realities . " 1. Savage . See Appendix A , page 545 .
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acquaintance afterwards appeared April Ashbourne asked Beauclerk believe Bennet Langton better Birkbeck Hill Boswell's Brocklesby called character Chesterfield church consider conversation David Garrick DEAR SIR death Dictionary dined dinner drinking England English Fleet Street Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear Hebrides honor hope Horace Walpole human humor imagination James Boswell John Johnson kind King lady Langton laugh learned liberty Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lordship madam mankind manner mentioned mind morning nature never night observed occasion once opinion Pembroke College perhaps Piozzi pleased pleasure poet pounds praise Rambler recollect religion Samuel Johnson Scotch Scotland seemed servant Sir Joshua Reynolds soon Streatham suppose sure talk tell things thought Thrale tion told Topham Beauclerk truth Whig Wilkes William wine wish write wrote young