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" I was suffering horrid tortures,' said he, ' and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill; but I made more noise than usual to cover all that; and so they never perceived my... "
Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: During the Last Twenty Years of ... - Page 243
by Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1786 - 306 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...seventeen times as high as the moon ;' ' but all this while I was suffering horrid tortures,' said he, ' and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill ; but I made more noise than usual to cover all...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...blanket seventeen times as high as the moon;' ' but all this while I was suffering horrid tortures,' said he, ' and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill; but I made more noise than usual to cover all that;...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ..., Volume 9

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...blanket seventeen times as high as the moon : " but all this while I was suffering horrid tortures," said he, "and verily believe ,that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill ; but I made more noise than usual to cover all...
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Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].

John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...blanket seventeen times as high as the moon : " but all this while I was suffering horrid tortures," said he, " and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill ; but I made more noise than usual to cover all...
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volume 2

Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...seventeen times as high as the moon ;' but ' all this while I was suffering horrid tortures,' said he, ' and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill ; but I made more noise than usual to cover all...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 21

Serial publications - 1837 - 552 pages
...seventeen times as high as the moon;" but ' 'all this while I was suffering horible tortures," said he, " and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill; but I made more noise than usual to cover all thar;...
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Poems. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...seventeen times as high as the moon ;' but ' all this while I was suffering horrid tortures,' said he, ' and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth, it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill ; but I made more noise than usual to cover all...
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The life of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...blanket seventeen times as high as the moon / but ' all this while I was suffering horrid tortures,' said he, ' and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill; but I made more noise than usual to cover all that;...
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original ..., Volume 2

Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 604 pages
...blanket seventeen times as high as the moon;' but ' all this while I was suffering horrid tortures,' said he, 'and verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill; but I made more noise than usual to cover all that;...
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volume 2

Sir James Prior - Authors, Irish - 1837 - 606 pages
...seventeen times as high as the moon „•' but ' all this while I was suffering horrid tortures,' said he, ' and" verily believe that if I had put a bit into my mouth it would have strangled me on the spot, I was so excessively ill; but I made more noise than usual to cover all that...
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