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, Nide 4Harper, 1891 |
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... Langton , whose kind communications have been ' Nothing can compensate for this want this year of all years . Johnson's health was better than it had been for long , and his mind happier perhaps than it had ever been . The knowledge ...
... Langton , whose kind communications have been ' Nothing can compensate for this want this year of all years . Johnson's health was better than it had been for long , and his mind happier perhaps than it had ever been . The knowledge ...
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... Langton told some stories in imitation of Dr. Johnson ; but they became him less than Mr. Bos- well , and only reminded me of what Dr. Johnson himself once said to me- - " Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag ...
... Langton told some stories in imitation of Dr. Johnson ; but they became him less than Mr. Bos- well , and only reminded me of what Dr. Johnson himself once said to me- - " Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag ...
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... Langton if his father and mother had sat for their pictures , which he thought it right for each generation of a family to do , and being told they had op- posed it , he said , " Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I ...
... Langton if his father and mother had sat for their pictures , which he thought it right for each generation of a family to do , and being told they had op- posed it , he said , " Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I ...
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... Langton asked him , how he liked that paper ; he shook his head , and an- swered , " too wordy . " At another time , when one was reading his tragedy of Irene to a company at a house in the country , he left the room ; and somebody ...
... Langton asked him , how he liked that paper ; he shook his head , and an- swered , " too wordy . " At another time , when one was reading his tragedy of Irene to a company at a house in the country , he left the room ; and somebody ...
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... Langton , " Men of harder minds than ours will do many things from which you and I would shrink ; yet , Sir , they will perhaps do more good in life than we . But let us try to help one another . If there be a wrong twist it may be set ...
... Langton , " Men of harder minds than ours will do many things from which you and I would shrink ; yet , Sir , they will perhaps do more good in life than we . But let us try to help one another . If there be a wrong twist it may be set ...
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