Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... humanity . No writer I know of has brought out the fascination of these large canvases with more moving effect than the man whose name I have already mentioned with the respect due to the greatest author the century has seen , Thomas ...
... humanity . No writer I know of has brought out the fascination of these large canvases with more moving effect than the man whose name I have already mentioned with the respect due to the greatest author the century has seen , Thomas ...
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... human nature and to people the globe with another race of mortals . But to say that nobody reads Johnson is sheer non- sense . There is always somebody reading Johnson . Genius , thank Heaven , is never crowded out , and Johnson ( as ...
... human nature and to people the globe with another race of mortals . But to say that nobody reads Johnson is sheer non- sense . There is always somebody reading Johnson . Genius , thank Heaven , is never crowded out , and Johnson ( as ...
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... humanity ; but we do not feel them the less . Let me particularly lament the Reverend Thomas Warton and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to ...
... humanity ; but we do not feel them the less . Let me particularly lament the Reverend Thomas Warton and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to ...
Stran xxxii
... human existence our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is ...
... human existence our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is ...
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... humanity went to her and offered to marry her , but it was then too late her vital power was exhausted ; and she actually exhibited one of the very rare instances of dying for love . She was buried in the cathedral of Lichfield ; and he ...
... humanity went to her and offered to marry her , but it was then too late her vital power was exhausted ; and she actually exhibited one of the very rare instances of dying for love . She was buried in the cathedral of Lichfield ; and he ...
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