Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... character , gathered such strength in his twentieth year , as to afflict him in a dreadful manner . While he was at Lichfield , in the college vacation of the year 1729 , he felt himself overwhelmed with a horrible hypochondria , with ...
... character , gathered such strength in his twentieth year , as to afflict him in a dreadful manner . While he was at Lichfield , in the college vacation of the year 1729 , he felt himself overwhelmed with a horrible hypochondria , with ...
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... character has been fully vindicated . Being himself a poet , Johnson was peculiarly happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , " Sir , we are a nest of singing birds ...
... character has been fully vindicated . Being himself a poet , Johnson was peculiarly happy in mentioning how many of the sons of Pembroke were poets ; adding , with a smile of sportive triumph , " Sir , we are a nest of singing birds ...
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... character of his parents , and his own merit , had , from his earliest years , secured him a kind reception in the best families at Lichfield . Among these I can mention Mr. Howard , Dr. Swinfen , Mr. Simpson , Mr. Levett , Captain ...
... character of his parents , and his own merit , had , from his earliest years , secured him a kind reception in the best families at Lichfield . Among these I can mention Mr. Howard , Dr. Swinfen , Mr. Simpson , Mr. Levett , Captain ...
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... character and situation , not omitting his prejudices as a " true - born Englishman , " not only against foreign countries , but against Ireland and Scot- land . On some of these topics I shall quote a few passages : " The cheated ...
... character and situation , not omitting his prejudices as a " true - born Englishman , " not only against foreign countries , but against Ireland and Scot- land . On some of these topics I shall quote a few passages : " The cheated ...
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... character , 1 concur in making it credible that he was fit to plan and carry on an ambitious and daring scheme of im- posture , similar instances of which have not been wanting in higher spheres , in the history of different countries ...
... character , 1 concur in making it credible that he was fit to plan and carry on an ambitious and daring scheme of im- posture , similar instances of which have not been wanting in higher spheres , in the history of different countries ...
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