Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , ' She had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value . ' Her piety was not inferior to her understanding ; and to her must be ascribed ...
... Hector , surgeon , of Birmingham , if she was not vain of her son . He said , ' She had too much good sense to be vain , but she knew her son's value . ' Her piety was not inferior to her understanding ; and to her must be ascribed ...
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... Hector informed me , acted by the advice of the celebrated Sir John Floyer , then a physician in Lichfield . Johnson used to talk of this very frankly ; and Mrs. Piozzi has preserved his very picturesque description of the scene , as it ...
... Hector informed me , acted by the advice of the celebrated Sir John Floyer , then a physician in Lichfield . Johnson used to talk of this very frankly ; and Mrs. Piozzi has preserved his very picturesque description of the scene , as it ...
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... Hector , has obligingly furnished me with many particulars of his boyish days ; and assured me that he never knew him corrected at school , but for talking and diverting other boys from their business . He seemed to learn by intuition ...
... Hector , has obligingly furnished me with many particulars of his boyish days ; and assured me that he never knew him corrected at school , but for talking and diverting other boys from their business . He seemed to learn by intuition ...
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... Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diversions ...
... Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diversions ...
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... Hector , his schoolfellow and friend , from which I select the following specimens : Translation of Virgil . Pastoral 1 . MELIBEUS Now , Tityrus , you , supine and careless laid , Play on your pipe beneath this beechen shade ; 1 As was ...
... Hector , his schoolfellow and friend , from which I select the following specimens : Translation of Virgil . Pastoral 1 . MELIBEUS Now , Tityrus , you , supine and careless laid , Play on your pipe beneath this beechen shade ; 1 As was ...
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