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, Volumen2 |
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-I told him that I had been at Sir John Fielding's office , complaining of my
landlord , and had been informed , that though I had taken my lodgings for a year
, I might , upon proof of his bad behaviour , quit them when I pleased , without
being ...
-I told him that I had been at Sir John Fielding's office , complaining of my
landlord , and had been informed , that though I had taken my lodgings for a year
, I might , upon proof of his bad behaviour , quit them when I pleased , without
being ...
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We can know no more than what the old writers have told us ; yet what large
books have we upon it , the whole of which , excepting such parts as are taken
from those old writers , is all a dream , such as Whitaker's Manchester , ' . I have
heard ...
We can know no more than what the old writers have told us ; yet what large
books have we upon it , the whole of which , excepting such parts as are taken
from those old writers , is all a dream , such as Whitaker's Manchester , ' . I have
heard ...
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Mr : Erskine one day told Johnson that when he was in the island of Minorca , he
not only read prayers , but preached two sermons to the regiment . He seemed to
object to the passage in scriptura where we are told that the angel of the Lord ...
Mr : Erskine one day told Johnson that when he was in the island of Minorca , he
not only read prayers , but preached two sermons to the regiment . He seemed to
object to the passage in scriptura where we are told that the angel of the Lord ...
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Mr. Boswell told Johnson , that Pope and Dryden had been thus distinguished by
a foreign writer : " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat trim
nags ; Dryden a coach , and six stately horses . ” — J . “ Why , Sir , the truth is ,
they ...
Mr. Boswell told Johnson , that Pope and Dryden had been thus distinguished by
a foreign writer : " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat trim
nags ; Dryden a coach , and six stately horses . ” — J . “ Why , Sir , the truth is ,
they ...
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Talking of the minuteness with which people will often record the sayings of
eminent persons , a story was told , that when Pope was on a visit to Spence at
Oxford , as they looked from the window they saw a Gentleman Commoner , who
was ...
Talking of the minuteness with which people will often record the sayings of
eminent persons , a story was told , that when Pope was on a visit to Spence at
Oxford , as they looked from the window they saw a Gentleman Commoner , who
was ...
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| Título | 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, Volumen2 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, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | J. Mawman, 1807 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 20 Abr. 2017 |
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