Macaulay's Life of Samuel JohnsonGinn, 1903 - 94 pages |
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... strange than his have often been thought grounds sufficient for absolving felons , and for setting aside wills . His 30 grimaces , his gestures , his mutterings , sometimes diverted and sometimes terrified people who did not know him ...
... strange than his have often been thought grounds sufficient for absolving felons , and for setting aside wills . His 30 grimaces , his gestures , his mutterings , sometimes diverted and sometimes terrified people who did not know him ...
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... strange , and his temper so violent , that his schoolroom must 10 have resembled an ogre's den . Nor was the tawdry painted grandmother whom he called his Titty well qualified to make provision for the comfort of young gentlemen . David ...
... strange , and his temper so violent , that his schoolroom must 10 have resembled an ogre's den . Nor was the tawdry painted grandmother whom he called his Titty well qualified to make provision for the comfort of young gentlemen . David ...
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... strange starts and uttered strange growls , who dressed like a scarecrow , and ate like a cormorant . During some time Johnson continued to call on his patron , but after being repeatedly told by the porter that his lordship was not at ...
... strange starts and uttered strange growls , who dressed like a scarecrow , and ate like a cormorant . During some time Johnson continued to call on his patron , but after being repeatedly told by the porter that his lordship was not at ...
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... massy and elaborate Dictionary , he had , with a strange want of taste and judgment , inserted bitter and contumelious reflections on the Whig party . The excise , which was a favourite resource of Whig LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON 23.
... massy and elaborate Dictionary , he had , with a strange want of taste and judgment , inserted bitter and contumelious reflections on the Whig party . The excise , which was a favourite resource of Whig LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON 23.
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... strange oblivion has over- 10 spread me , so that I know not what has become of the last year . " Easter 1765 came , and found him still in the same state . " My time , " he wrote , " has been unprofitably spent , and seems as a dream ...
... strange oblivion has over- 10 spread me , so that I know not what has become of the last year . " Easter 1765 came , and found him still in the same state . " My time , " he wrote , " has been unprofitably spent , and seems as a dream ...
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Page 85 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 84 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Page 84 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
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Page 73 - All his books are written in a learned language, in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse, in a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love, in a language in which nobody ever thinks.