Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran vii
... behind him for even the most humble - minded of gleaners in the Johnsonian fields . When you know you must be beaten , the wisest course is to decline competition . " The merit of these volumes is all or nearly INTRODUCTION ...
... behind him for even the most humble - minded of gleaners in the Johnsonian fields . When you know you must be beaten , the wisest course is to decline competition . " The merit of these volumes is all or nearly INTRODUCTION ...
Stran viii
... merit that is not Boswell's or the printers ' belongs to Mr. Edmund Malone , whose Life , by Sir James Prior , is well worth the two or three shillings which is all the second - hand booksellers are in the habit of asking for it . The ...
... merit that is not Boswell's or the printers ' belongs to Mr. Edmund Malone , whose Life , by Sir James Prior , is well worth the two or three shillings which is all the second - hand booksellers are in the habit of asking for it . The ...
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... merit , and would be alert to embrace such an offer from a nobleman . But whether I had shown an over - exultation which provoked his spleen , or whether he was seized with a suspicion that I had obtruded him on Lord Marchmont and ...
... merit , and would be alert to embrace such an offer from a nobleman . But whether I had shown an over - exultation which provoked his spleen , or whether he was seized with a suspicion that I had obtruded him on Lord Marchmont and ...
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... merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more general approbation gratify those feelings ...
... merit of a contemporary , mixed with a certain degree of vanity not altogether inexcusable , in appearing fully sensible of it , where can I find one , in complimenting whom I can with more general approbation gratify those feelings ...
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... 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 furnish it to 1 Brit . Mus ...
... 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 furnish it to 1 Brit . Mus ...
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