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Page 177
... Johnson married a widow , Mrs. Porter , nearly twenty years older than himself . She was unattractive and quite his inferior in cultivation , but Johnson was blind to all her defects , and made her the most loyal and devoted of husbands ...
... Johnson married a widow , Mrs. Porter , nearly twenty years older than himself . She was unattractive and quite his inferior in cultivation , but Johnson was blind to all her defects , and made her the most loyal and devoted of husbands ...
Page 179
... Johnson's work is chiefly guesswork , and quite unreliable ; but what he did succeed in is giving a comprehensive , generally accurate , and always ingenious definition of a word , and adding passages in illustration of the sense in ...
... Johnson's work is chiefly guesswork , and quite unreliable ; but what he did succeed in is giving a comprehensive , generally accurate , and always ingenious definition of a word , and adding passages in illustration of the sense in ...
Page 180
... Johnson with a faithful devotion , which won in time some response from his idol . In 1773 Boswell induced his friend to accompany him on а journey to Scotland . The expedition was not altogether successful ; Johnson disliked the Scotch ...
... Johnson with a faithful devotion , which won in time some response from his idol . In 1773 Boswell induced his friend to accompany him on а journey to Scotland . The expedition was not altogether successful ; Johnson disliked the Scotch ...
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