The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... died : Johnson said , it was the triumph of hope over experience . " He observed , that a man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife . It was a miserable thing when the conversation could only be such as ...
... died : Johnson said , it was the triumph of hope over experience . " He observed , that a man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife . It was a miserable thing when the conversation could only be such as ...
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... died before his father , the fifteenth Earl of Sutherland . She died in 1791. If Boswell is right in calling her Lady Helen , and as her sister was called Lady Jane Sinclair , they must have had a grant of precedence as earl's daughters ...
... died before his father , the fifteenth Earl of Sutherland . She died in 1791. If Boswell is right in calling her Lady Helen , and as her sister was called Lady Jane Sinclair , they must have had a grant of precedence as earl's daughters ...
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... died of a fever , I am afraid , more violent by uneasiness of mind . His debts began to be heavy , and all his re- sources were exhausted . Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds . Was ever poet so trust ...
... died of a fever , I am afraid , more violent by uneasiness of mind . His debts began to be heavy , and all his re- sources were exhausted . Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed not less than two thousand pounds . Was ever poet so trust ...
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