Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His LifeT. and J. Allman, 1826 - 237 oldal |
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48. oldal
... dinner I meant to please Mr. Johnson particu- larly with a dish of very young peas . Are not they charming ? said I to him , while he was eating them . " Perhaps ( said he ) they would be so - to a pig . " I only instance these re ...
... dinner I meant to please Mr. Johnson particu- larly with a dish of very young peas . Are not they charming ? said I to him , while he was eating them . " Perhaps ( said he ) they would be so - to a pig . " I only instance these re ...
49. oldal
... practices of yore , Shall deem our hoar progenitors unwise . They to the dome where smoke with curling play Announced the dinner to the regions round , E Summon'd the singer blythe , and harper gay , And DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 49.
... practices of yore , Shall deem our hoar progenitors unwise . They to the dome where smoke with curling play Announced the dinner to the regions round , E Summon'd the singer blythe , and harper gay , And DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 49.
65. oldal
... dinners , and his company , before he came back to us on the Monday night- treating them with the same , or perhaps more ceremonious civility , than he would have done by as many people of fashion - making the Holy Scripture thus the ...
... dinners , and his company , before he came back to us on the Monday night- treating them with the same , or perhaps more ceremonious civility , than he would have done by as many people of fashion - making the Holy Scripture thus the ...
79. oldal
... dinner again , yet I have heard him protest , that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall- fruit , except once in his life , and that was when we were all together at Ombersley , the seat of my lord Sandys . I was saying to a ...
... dinner again , yet I have heard him protest , that he never had quite as much as he wished of wall- fruit , except once in his life , and that was when we were all together at Ombersley , the seat of my lord Sandys . I was saying to a ...
89. oldal
... he who dressed a good dinner was a more excellent and more useful member of society than he who wrote a good poem . " And in this opinion ( said Mr. Fohnson in reply ) all the dogs in the town DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 89.
... he who dressed a good dinner was a more excellent and more useful member of society than he who wrote a good poem . " And in this opinion ( said Mr. Fohnson in reply ) all the dogs in the town DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 89.
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