Life of Johnson ...Harper, 1891 |
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... happy to think , that he lived to see the Crown at last recover its just influence ' . At Leicester we read in the news - paper that Dr. James ' was dead . I thought that the death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had ...
... happy to think , that he lived to see the Crown at last recover its just influence ' . At Leicester we read in the news - paper that Dr. James ' was dead . I thought that the death of an old school - fellow , and one with whom he had ...
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... happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , —or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise3 ? ' JOHNSON . ' No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . ' ' Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale on the ...
... happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , —or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise3 ? ' JOHNSON . ' No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . ' ' Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale on the ...
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... happy than Dr. Johnson in the extempore and masterly defence of any cause which , at the given moment , he chose to defend . ' Stockdale's Memoirs , i . 261 . • Burke , in a letter that he wrote in 1771 ( Corres . i . 330 ) , must have ...
... happy than Dr. Johnson in the extempore and masterly defence of any cause which , at the given moment , he chose to defend . ' Stockdale's Memoirs , i . 261 . • Burke , in a letter that he wrote in 1771 ( Corres . i . 330 ) , must have ...
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... happy , than that none should be happy , which would be the case in a general state of equality ' . ' When the service was ended , I went home with him , and we sat quietly by ourselves . He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books . I said , I ...
... happy , than that none should be happy , which would be the case in a general state of equality ' . ' When the service was ended , I went home with him , and we sat quietly by ourselves . He recommended Dr. Cheyne's books . I said , I ...
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... happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is shewed many faults ; he shewed them indeed with anger , but he found them with acuteness , such as ought to rescue his criticism from ob- livion . ' Ib . vii ...
... happy , and loses that modesty , and grows impudent and vociferous : but he is shewed many faults ; he shewed them indeed with anger , but he found them with acuteness , such as ought to rescue his criticism from ob- livion . ' Ib . vii ...
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