The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the HebridesG. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... honour of your most tender and affectionate letter with its most welcome contents . dam , I may with truth say , I have not words to express my gratitude as I ought to a lady , whose bounty has , by an act of benevolence , doubled my ...
... honour of your most tender and affectionate letter with its most welcome contents . dam , I may with truth say , I have not words to express my gratitude as I ought to a lady , whose bounty has , by an act of benevolence , doubled my ...
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... honour ; even the lamp - irons on Westminster - bridge were converted into seats , while every lighter lying in the Thames bore men up to the topmast - head . This was the true wonder of the day . Baretti says he will show us finer ...
... honour ; even the lamp - irons on Westminster - bridge were converted into seats , while every lighter lying in the Thames bore men up to the topmast - head . This was the true wonder of the day . Baretti says he will show us finer ...
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... honour in private , and may , therefore , have entertained scruples whether he was entitled to be presented to the king of France ; but it would seem that those scruples were not necessa- ry , the rule perhaps extending only to formal ...
... honour in private , and may , therefore , have entertained scruples whether he was entitled to be presented to the king of France ; but it would seem that those scruples were not necessa- ry , the rule perhaps extending only to formal ...
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... honour which you are pleased to offer to , madam , your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " ] MSS . [ " DR . JOHNSON TO MRS . MONtagu . " Thursday , 21st Dec. 1775 . Montag . " MADAM , -I know not when any letter has given me so ...
... honour which you are pleased to offer to , madam , your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " ] MSS . [ " DR . JOHNSON TO MRS . MONtagu . " Thursday , 21st Dec. 1775 . Montag . " MADAM , -I know not when any letter has given me so ...
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... honour of receiving Lord Hailes's first vol- ume , for which I return my most respectful thanks . " I wish you , my dearest friend , and your haughty lady , ( for I know she does not love me ) , and the young ladies , and the young ...
... honour of receiving Lord Hailes's first vol- ume , for which I return my most respectful thanks . " I wish you , my dearest friend , and your haughty lady , ( for I know she does not love me ) , and the young ladies , and the young ...
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Strona 176 - The company having laughed heartily, Johnson stood forth in defence of his friend. " Nay, Gentlemen (said he), Dr. Goldsmith is in the right. A nobleman ought to have made up to such a man as Goldsmith; and I think it is much against Lord Camden that he neglected him.
Strona 72 - Sir, I am obliged to Mr. Dilly. I will wait upon him — " Boswell: "Provided, sir, I suppose, that the company which he is to have is agreeable to you." Johnson: "What do you mean, sir? What do you take me for? Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?
Strona 283 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
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