Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His LifeT. and J. Allman, 1826 - 237 oldal |
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... JOHNSON was the son of Michael Johnson , a bookseller at Litchfield , in Staf- fordshire ; a very pious and worthy man , but wrong - headed , positive , and afflicted with me- lancholy , as his son , from whom alone I had the ...
... JOHNSON was the son of Michael Johnson , a bookseller at Litchfield , in Staf- fordshire ; a very pious and worthy man , but wrong - headed , positive , and afflicted with me- lancholy , as his son , from whom alone I had the ...
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... Johnson said , that when his workshop , a detached building , had fallen half down for want of money to repair it ... Johnson good - humouredly ) , I can fit you : I had an uncle , B 2 DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . stayed long at home, would ...
... Johnson said , that when his workshop , a detached building , had fallen half down for want of money to repair it ... Johnson good - humouredly ) , I can fit you : I had an uncle , B 2 DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . stayed long at home, would ...
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... Johnson was past fifty years old when he married his wife , who was upwards of forty ; yet I think her son told me she remain- ed three years childless before he was born into the world , who so greatly contributed to im- prove it . In ...
... Johnson was past fifty years old when he married his wife , who was upwards of forty ; yet I think her son told me she remain- ed three years childless before he was born into the world , who so greatly contributed to im- prove it . In ...
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... Johnson give a good deal of pain by refu- sing to hear the verses the children could re- cite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's Elegy to him alternately , that ...
... Johnson give a good deal of pain by refu- sing to hear the verses the children could re- cite , or the songs they could sing ; particularly one friend who told him that his two sons should repeat Gray's Elegy to him alternately , that ...
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... Johnson , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life , at least since my acquaintance with him , con- sisted in little else than talking , when he was not absolutely employed in some serious piece of work ...
... Johnson , is almost all that can be done by the writers of his life ; as his life , at least since my acquaintance with him , con- sisted in little else than talking , when he was not absolutely employed in some serious piece of work ...
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