Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 4Harper, 1891 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... mind happier perhaps than it had ever been . The knowledge that in his Lives of the Poets , he had done , and was doing good work , no doubt was very cheering to him . At no time had he gone more into soci- ety , and at no time does he ...
... mind happier perhaps than it had ever been . The knowledge that in his Lives of the Poets , he had done , and was doing good work , no doubt was very cheering to him . At no time had he gone more into soci- ety , and at no time does he ...
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... mind was prepared to receive it , and that therefore , Jack the Giant- Killer , Parisenus and Parismenus , and The ... minds . " When I would urge the numerous editions of Tommy Prudent or Goody Two Shoes ; " Remember always , " said he ...
... mind was prepared to receive it , and that therefore , Jack the Giant- Killer , Parisenus and Parismenus , and The ... minds . " When I would urge the numerous editions of Tommy Prudent or Goody Two Shoes ; " Remember always , " said he ...
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... mind to give him ; on which I set about to read Thomas à Kempis in Low Dutch , which I accomplished , and thence I judged that my mind was not impaired , Low Dutch having no affinity with any of the lan- guages which I knew . ' Croker's ...
... mind to give him ; on which I set about to read Thomas à Kempis in Low Dutch , which I accomplished , and thence I judged that my mind was not impaired , Low Dutch having no affinity with any of the lan- guages which I knew . ' Croker's ...
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... mind , but not accus- tomed to write verse ' ; for there is some uncouthness in the expression ' . " ' Drinking tea one day at Garrick's with Mr. Langton , he was questioned if he was not somewhat of a heretick as to Shakspeare ; said ...
... mind , but not accus- tomed to write verse ' ; for there is some uncouthness in the expression ' . " ' Drinking tea one day at Garrick's with Mr. Langton , he was questioned if he was not somewhat of a heretick as to Shakspeare ; said ...
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... mind ' ; when the gentle- man was going away , Johnson said to him , " Pray , Sir , don't leave us ; for we may perhaps forget to think of you , and then you will cease to exist " . " ' Goldsmith , upon being visited by Johnson one day ...
... mind ' ; when the gentle- man was going away , Johnson said to him , " Pray , Sir , don't leave us ; for we may perhaps forget to think of you , and then you will cease to exist " . " ' Goldsmith , upon being visited by Johnson one day ...
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