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... verses : Here lies good master duck , Whom Samuel Johnson trod on ; If it had liv'd , it had been good luck , For then we'd had an odd one . This prodigy is scarcely exceeded by the bees on Plato's lips , or the doves that covered 1 the ...
... verses : Here lies good master duck , Whom Samuel Johnson trod on ; If it had liv'd , it had been good luck , For then we'd had an odd one . This prodigy is scarcely exceeded by the bees on Plato's lips , or the doves that covered 1 the ...
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... verses , and in alternate rhyme ? The internal evidence is sufficient to counterbalance any testimony that these verses could be the production of a child of such an early age . But , by good fortune , credulity is relieved from the ...
... verses , and in alternate rhyme ? The internal evidence is sufficient to counterbalance any testimony that these verses could be the production of a child of such an early age . But , by good fortune , credulity is relieved from the ...
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... verses . His figure and manner seemed strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till , upon something which occurred in the course of conversation , he suddenly struck in , and quoted Macrobius : and this gave the ...
... verses . His figure and manner seemed strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till , upon something which occurred in the course of conversation , he suddenly struck in , and quoted Macrobius : and this gave the ...
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... verses , intituled Som- nium , containing a common thought , " that the muse had come to him in his sleep , and ... verse , as a Christmas exercise . He performed it with un- common rapidity , and in so masterly a manner , that he ...
... verses , intituled Som- nium , containing a common thought , " that the muse had come to him in his sleep , and ... verse , as a Christmas exercise . He performed it with un- common rapidity , and in so masterly a manner , that he ...
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... verses , which has not been found . He conceived a tender passion for Miss Lucy Porter , whose mother he afterwards mar- ried , and whom he had frequent opportunities of seeing at the house of Mr Hunter , his 46 THE LIFE OF.
... verses , which has not been found . He conceived a tender passion for Miss Lucy Porter , whose mother he afterwards mar- ried , and whom he had frequent opportunities of seeing at the house of Mr Hunter , his 46 THE LIFE OF.
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Page 97 - Then, sir, you have exceeded Demosthenes himself; for to say that you have exceeded Francis's Demosthenes would be saying nothing." The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on 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.
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Page 287 - ... and knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk.
Page 95 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. "Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.
Page 36 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me.