Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson During: The Last Twenty Years of His Life; His Life (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Piozzi, Hester Lynch

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440095159 ISBN 13 : 9781440095153

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2012

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Mrs. Thrale in whose house at Streatham Doctor Johnson was, after the year of his first introduction, 1765, in days of infirmity, an honoured and a cherished friend. The year of the beginning of the friendship was the year in which Johnson, fifty-six years old, obtained his degree of LL.D. from Dublin, and though he never called himself Doctor was thenceforth called Doctor by all his friends. Before her marriage Mrs. Piozzi had been Miss Hesther Lynch Salusbury, a young lady of a good Welsh family. She was born in the year 1740, and she lived until the year 1821. She celebrated her eightieth birthday on the 27th of January, 1820, by a concert, ball, and supper to six or seven hun dred people, and led off the dancing at the ball with an adopted son for partner.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440095159
• ISBN 13: 9781440095153
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 198