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" I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it. "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the ... - Page 460
by James Boswell - 1799
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The Story of Bethlehem Hospital from Its Foundation in 1247

Edward Geoffrey O'Donoghue - Psychiatric hospitals - 1914 - 556 pages
...been shut up. " His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." CHAPTER XXX WHEN GEORGE THE THIRD WAS KING \ THE last forty years of the eighteenth century, which...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed, Volume 1

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and come to dust. Fear no more the lightning-flasii,...thunder-stone;4 Fear not slander, censure rash; 15 Thou hast labor; [380 but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; ss 3°5 linen; and I have no passion for it." Johnson continued. "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love dean linen; and I have no passion for it." Johnson continued. "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature; (1660-1780.).

Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." While in Bedlam, Smart wrote his famous Song to David, published in 1 763. Worn out with drunkenness...
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The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith, Volume 18

Great Britain - 1917 - 1406 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted upon people praying with him, and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.' The impulse which had produced the ' Song to David ' remained with Smart to the end, but the inspiration...
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Modern English Essays ...

Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1922 - 280 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it." When Boswell paid Johnson his memorable first visit in 1763, Smart had recently been released from...
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By-ways Round Helicon: A Kind of Anthology

Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1922 - 184 pages
...to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.' " Smart was born in I722,and his unhappy career, in the course of which he had been a Fellow of Pembroke...
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Roman home life and religion: a reader

Herbert Lionel Rogers - Latin language - 1923 - 268 pages
...Johnson said : " His infirmities were not noxious to Society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." This confession is of a piece with a story told by one Wickins, a draper of Lichfield, with whom Johnson...
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Boswell's Johnson: The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 pages
...to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else....not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it." Talking of Garrick, he said, "He is the first man in the world for sprightly conversation." When I...
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