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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... Young , who pined for preferment , talks with contempt of it in his writings , and affects to despise every thing that he did not despise . " - BISHOP OF ST . ASAPH . ' " He was , like other chaplains , looking for vacancies ; but that ...
... Young , who pined for preferment , talks with contempt of it in his writings , and affects to despise every thing that he did not despise . " - BISHOP OF ST . ASAPH . ' " He was , like other chaplains , looking for vacancies ; but that ...
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... young man's mistress . " - " GOLDSMITH . 46 Nay , Sir ; but your muse was not a mistress . " -JOHNSON . " Sir , I do not think she was . But as we advance in the journey of life , we drop some of the things which have pleased - us ...
... young man's mistress . " - " GOLDSMITH . 46 Nay , Sir ; but your muse was not a mistress . " -JOHNSON . " Sir , I do not think she was . But as we advance in the journey of life , we drop some of the things which have pleased - us ...
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... young lady , and delivered the message . The Doctor turned him- self in the bed , and said , - " God bless you , my dear ! " These were the last words he spoke . His difficulty of breathing increased till about seven o'clock in the ...
... young lady , and delivered the message . The Doctor turned him- self in the bed , and said , - " God bless you , my dear ! " These were the last words he spoke . His difficulty of breathing increased till about seven o'clock in the ...
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... young lady well known to Dr. Johnson , for whom he had shewn much affection ; while she ever had , and still re- tained , a great respect for him . Mrs. Knowles at the same time took an opportunity of letting him know , " that the ...
... young lady well known to Dr. Johnson , for whom he had shewn much affection ; while she ever had , and still re- tained , a great respect for him . Mrs. Knowles at the same time took an opportunity of letting him know , " that the ...
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... young proselyte in the severest terms of reproach . Mr. Boswell observed , that the essential part of religion was piety , a devout intercourse with the Divinity ; and that many a man was a Quaker without knowing it . A Quaker having ...
... young proselyte in the severest terms of reproach . Mr. Boswell observed , that the essential part of religion was piety , a devout intercourse with the Divinity ; and that many a man was a Quaker without knowing it . A Quaker having ...
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