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... Hears the talk of the Club about Johnson and Burke . . 24 Calls on Mr. and Mrs. Thrale 24i Dines with Archdeacon Congreve 24a Meets Johnson at dinner at the Thrales' . . . .24 Dinner party at Mr. Thrale's 25 Answer to Taxation no ...
... Hears the talk of the Club about Johnson and Burke . . 24 Calls on Mr. and Mrs. Thrale 24i Dines with Archdeacon Congreve 24a Meets Johnson at dinner at the Thrales' . . . .24 Dinner party at Mr. Thrale's 25 Answer to Taxation no ...
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... Hears the talk of the Club about Johnson and Burke • 241 Calls on Mr. and Mrs. Thrale 24 Dines with Archdeacon Congreve 24 Meets Johnson at dinner at the Thrales ' · 24 Dinner party at Mr. Thrale's • 25 Answer to Taxation no Tyranny ...
... Hears the talk of the Club about Johnson and Burke • 241 Calls on Mr. and Mrs. Thrale 24 Dines with Archdeacon Congreve 24 Meets Johnson at dinner at the Thrales ' · 24 Dinner party at Mr. Thrale's • 25 Answer to Taxation no Tyranny ...
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... slight performance to the decision of that glorious country , which I have the daily delight to hear applauded in others , as eminently just , generous , and humane . ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. 00 OO PREFACE .
... slight performance to the decision of that glorious country , which I have the daily delight to hear applauded in others , as eminently just , generous , and humane . ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON , LL.D. 00 OO PREFACE .
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... hear the verses the children could recite , 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 he might judge who had the happiest cadence . " No ...
... hear the verses the children could recite , 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 he might judge who had the happiest cadence . " No ...
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... hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimu- late their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the numerous editions and quick sale of " Tommy Prudent " or ' Goody ...
... hear about babies ; they like to be told of giants and castles , and of somewhat which can stretch and stimu- late their little minds . " When in answer I would urge the numerous editions and quick sale of " Tommy Prudent " or ' Goody ...
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Page 391 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed...
Page 31 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 382 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 412 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 377 - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Page 391 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
Page 363 - ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.
Page 128 - A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek. My old friend Mrs. Carter," he added, " could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from the Greek, and work a handkerchief as well as compose a poem.
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