Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran ix
... give pleasure , to excite interest , to banish solitude , to make the fireside more attractive than the tavern , to give joy to those who are still capable of joy , and - why should we not admit it ? —to drug sorrow and divert thought ...
... give pleasure , to excite interest , to banish solitude , to make the fireside more attractive than the tavern , to give joy to those who are still capable of joy , and - why should we not admit it ? —to drug sorrow and divert thought ...
Stran xvi
... . JOHNSON : Wish ! Why , yes . If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand , but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it . There xvi LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON How all this painstaking and drudgery contrasts ...
... . JOHNSON : Wish ! Why , yes . If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand , but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it . There xvi LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON How all this painstaking and drudgery contrasts ...
Stran xxii
... give one example of what I mean by dialectical imagination . Talking of those who denied the truth of Chris- tianity , he said : ' It is always easy to be on the negative side . If a man were now to deny that there is salt upon the ...
... give one example of what I mean by dialectical imagination . Talking of those who denied the truth of Chris- tianity , he said : ' It is always easy to be on the negative side . If a man were now to deny that there is salt upon the ...
Stran xxxii
... give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which the regret will be deep , and ...
... give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to improve , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which the regret will be deep , and ...
Stran xxxiii
... give them a story to apply . When the great Duke of Marl- borough , accompanied by Lord Cadogan , was one day reconnoitring the army in Flanders , a heavy rain came on , and they both called for their cloaks . Lord Cadogan's servant , a ...
... give them a story to apply . When the great Duke of Marl- borough , accompanied by Lord Cadogan , was one day reconnoitring the army in Flanders , a heavy rain came on , and they both called for their cloaks . Lord Cadogan's servant , a ...
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