Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2J. Mawman, 1807 |
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... Goldsmith one day observed to Johnson , " I think , Sir , you don't go to the theatres now . You give yourself no more concern about a new play , than if you had never had any thing to do with the stage . " - " Why , Sir ( said Johnson ) ...
... Goldsmith one day observed to Johnson , " I think , Sir , you don't go to the theatres now . You give yourself no more concern about a new play , than if you had never had any thing to do with the stage . " - " Why , Sir ( said Johnson ) ...
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... Goldsmith ( who was in the room ) said , " I don't see that . " - J . " Nay , why should not you see what every one else sees ? " - G . " It is for fear of something that he has resolved to kill himself ; and will not that timid ...
... Goldsmith ( who was in the room ) said , " I don't see that . " - J . " Nay , why should not you see what every one else sees ? " - G . " It is for fear of something that he has resolved to kill himself ; and will not that timid ...
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... Goldsmith had said that he had come too late into the world , for that Pope and other poets had taken up the places in the Temple of Fame ; so that as but a few at any period could possess poetical reputation , a man of genius could now ...
... Goldsmith had said that he had come too late into the world , for that Pope and other poets had taken up the places in the Temple of Fame ; so that as but a few at any period could possess poetical reputation , a man of genius could now ...
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... Goldsmith said , " To be sure he should . " — JOHNSON . " No , Sir ; he would give great of- fence . He would have to tell of almost all the living great what they do not wish told . " - GOLD- SMITH . " It may , perhaps , be necessary ...
... Goldsmith said , " To be sure he should . " — JOHNSON . " No , Sir ; he would give great of- fence . He would have to tell of almost all the living great what they do not wish told . " - GOLD- SMITH . " It may , perhaps , be necessary ...
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... GOLDSMITH . " There is a partial migration of the swallows ; the stronger ones migrate , the others do not . " At Mr. Langton's with Dr. Beattie and some other company , Johnson descanted on the sub- ject of Literary Property .. " There ...
... GOLDSMITH . " There is a partial migration of the swallows ; the stronger ones migrate , the others do not . " At Mr. Langton's with Dr. Beattie and some other company , Johnson descanted on the sub- ject of Literary Property .. " There ...
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