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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... deal , and required the boldness of a General of Irish Volunteers to make the attempt . Johnson was at first startled , and in some heat answer- ed , " How can your Lordship ask so simple a question ? " But immediately recovering ...
... deal , and required the boldness of a General of Irish Volunteers to make the attempt . Johnson was at first startled , and in some heat answer- ed , " How can your Lordship ask so simple a question ? " But immediately recovering ...
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... deal with the Earl of Shelburne , now Mar- quis of Lansdown . Maurice Morgan , Esq . author of the " Essay on the Character of Falstaff , " being a particular friend of his Lordship , had once an opportunity of entertaining Johnson for ...
... deal with the Earl of Shelburne , now Mar- quis of Lansdown . Maurice Morgan , Esq . author of the " Essay on the Character of Falstaff , " being a particular friend of his Lordship , had once an opportunity of entertaining Johnson for ...
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... however , thought Goldsmith right ; observing that “ when people have lived a great deal together , they know what each of them will say on every sub- ject . A new understanding , therefore , is desira- 14 TABLE TALK :
... however , thought Goldsmith right ; observing that “ when people have lived a great deal together , they know what each of them will say on every sub- ject . A new understanding , therefore , is desira- 14 TABLE TALK :
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... deal of wit , Sir ? " - JOHNSON . " I do not think so , Sir . He is , indeed , continually attempting wit , but he fails . And I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempt- ing wit and failing , than in seeing a man trying to leap ...
... deal of wit , Sir ? " - JOHNSON . " I do not think so , Sir . He is , indeed , continually attempting wit , but he fails . And I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempt- ing wit and failing , than in seeing a man trying to leap ...
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... deal of learning ; but it never lies straight . There is never one idea by the side of another ; ' tis all entangled ; and then he drives it awkwardly upon conversation . " " People ( he remarked ) may be taken in once , who imagine ...
... deal of learning ; but it never lies straight . There is never one idea by the side of another ; ' tis all entangled ; and then he drives it awkwardly upon conversation . " " People ( he remarked ) may be taken in once , who imagine ...
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