Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran viii
... appeared in two com- fortable quartos in 1791 , no less than four years after the authorised biography by Johnson's literary executor , Sir John Hawkins . The second edition followed in 1793. Boswell died in 1795. The third edition was ...
... appeared in two com- fortable quartos in 1791 , no less than four years after the authorised biography by Johnson's literary executor , Sir John Hawkins . The second edition followed in 1793. Boswell died in 1795. The third edition was ...
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... appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more general approbation gratify those feelings ? Your excellence , not only in the Art over which you have long presided with unrivalled fame ...
... appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more general approbation gratify those feelings ? Your excellence , not only in the Art over which you have long presided with unrivalled fame ...
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... appeared to have more merit in the execution of the work , I have resolved to adopt and enlarge upon the excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is neces- sary to explain , connect , and supply , I ...
... appeared to have more merit in the execution of the work , I have resolved to adopt and enlarge upon the excellent plan of Mr. Mason , in his Memoirs of Gray . Wherever narrative is neces- sary to explain , connect , and supply , I ...
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... appearance was little different from that of the other . There is amongst his prayers one inscribed , When my EYE was restored to its use , ' 1 which ascertains a defect that many of his friends knew he had , though I never perceived it ...
... appearance was little different from that of the other . There is amongst his prayers one inscribed , When my EYE was restored to its use , ' 1 which ascertains a defect that many of his friends knew he had , though I never perceived it ...
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... appeared strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation , he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius ; and thus he gave the first im- pression of that more ...
... appeared strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation , he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius ; and thus he gave the first im- pression of that more ...
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