Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran xi
... effect than the man whose name I have already mentioned with the respect due to the greatest author the century has seen , Thomas Carlyle . With what a devouring eye had he read his Clarendon and his Boswell ! -his own pages are rich ...
... effect than the man whose name I have already mentioned with the respect due to the greatest author the century has seen , Thomas Carlyle . With what a devouring eye had he read his Clarendon and his Boswell ! -his own pages are rich ...
Stran xxvii
... effects of the satire . I own , indeed , that I was arrogant enough to suppose that the tenor of the rest of the book would sufficiently guard me against such a strange imputation . But it seems I judged too well of the world ; for ...
... effects of the satire . I own , indeed , that I was arrogant enough to suppose that the tenor of the rest of the book would sufficiently guard me against such a strange imputation . But it seems I judged too well of the world ; for ...
Stran xxxiii
... effects which were hoped . for by its propagators . It seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical Work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey ...
... effects which were hoped . for by its propagators . It seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical Work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey ...
Stran 11
... effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness . From him then his son inherited , with some other qualities ...
... effects are well known to be a weariness of life , an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness . From him then his son inherited , with some other qualities ...
Stran 18
... effect . I ventured to say to him , in allusion to the political principles in which he was educated , and of which he ever retained some odour , that his mother had not carried him far enough , she should have taken him to Rome . ' 1 ...
... effect . I ventured to say to him , in allusion to the political principles in which he was educated , and of which he ever retained some odour , that his mother had not carried him far enough , she should have taken him to Rome . ' 1 ...
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