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, Volumen1J. Mawman, 1807 |
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... Characters ; rules for the conduct of life in the most serious and delicate conjunctures ; and those sound re- marks on works of genius and learning , which in a peculiar man- ner distinguished the beloved friend of Mr. BoSWELL . It may ...
... Characters ; rules for the conduct of life in the most serious and delicate conjunctures ; and those sound re- marks on works of genius and learning , which in a peculiar man- ner distinguished the beloved friend of Mr. BoSWELL . It may ...
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... Character of Falstaff , " being a particular friend of his Lordship , had once an opportunity of entertaining Johnson for a day or two at Wick- ham , when its Lord was absent . One night , pretty late , Mr. Morgan and he had a dispute ...
... Character of Falstaff , " being a particular friend of his Lordship , had once an opportunity of entertaining Johnson for a day or two at Wick- ham , when its Lord was absent . One night , pretty late , Mr. Morgan and he had a dispute ...
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... character . " Of a certain player he remarked , that his con- versation usually threatened and announced more than it performed ; that he fed you with a continual renovation of hope , to end in a constant succession of disappointment ...
... character . " Of a certain player he remarked , that his con- versation usually threatened and announced more than it performed ; that he fed you with a continual renovation of hope , to end in a constant succession of disappointment ...
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... character , or exempted him from the influence of the tender passions . Want of tenderness , he always alledg- ed , was want of parts , and was no less a proof of stupidity than depravity . Of Goldsmith he said , " He is so much afraid ...
... character , or exempted him from the influence of the tender passions . Want of tenderness , he always alledg- ed , was want of parts , and was no less a proof of stupidity than depravity . Of Goldsmith he said , " He is so much afraid ...
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... character . " - B . " I don't think Foote a good mimick , Sir . " - J . " No , Sir ; his imitations are not like . He gives you something different from himself , but not the character which he means to He goes out of himself , without ...
... character . " - B . " I don't think Foote a good mimick , Sir . " - J . " No , Sir ; his imitations are not like . He gives you something different from himself , but not the character which he means to He goes out of himself , without ...
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