Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran viii
... hand booksellers are in the habit of asking for it . The biography itself first 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 ...
... hand booksellers are in the habit of asking for it . The biography itself first 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 ...
Stran ix
... hands , to obtrude him upon their notice , and thus to capture their intelligence and engage their interest , is the work of the missionary of letters , who does not need to encumber himself with the commentators , but only to do all ...
... hands , to obtrude him upon their notice , and thus to capture their intelligence and engage their interest , is the work of the missionary of letters , who does not need to encumber himself with the commentators , but only to do all ...
Stran x
... hands off ! ' is surely a natural exclamation as their spears blacken the horizon . Our lives do not terminate in the torture - chambers of the examiner , and we shall sorely need the solace of books like Boswell's long after we have ...
... hands off ! ' is surely a natural exclamation as their spears blacken the horizon . Our lives do not terminate in the torture - chambers of the examiner , and we shall sorely need the solace of books like Boswell's long after we have ...
Stran xiii
... of literary fame , is at least equally certain . His genius prompted him what he could do , and told him that in the famous Doctor he had a subject made for his hand . Like Fred Bayham he felt he was INTRODUCTION xiii.
... of literary fame , is at least equally certain . His genius prompted him what he could do , and told him that in the famous Doctor he had a subject made for his hand . Like Fred Bayham he felt he was INTRODUCTION xiii.
Stran xiv
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. his hand . Like Fred Bayham he felt he was in for a good thing , and he meant to make the very most of it . He saw his way to write a great book , to do something which , despite the sneers of Gibbon and ...
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. his hand . Like Fred Bayham he felt he was in for a good thing , and he meant to make the very most of it . He saw his way to write a great book , to do something which , despite the sneers of Gibbon and ...
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