Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran viii
... never forgot . Who does not remember the famous occasion when he apologised to a compositor ? ' Mr. Compositor , I ask your pardon . Mr. Compositor , I ask your pardon , again and again . ' Any merit that is not Boswell's or the ...
... never forgot . Who does not remember the famous occasion when he apologised to a compositor ? ' Mr. Compositor , I ask your pardon . Mr. Compositor , I ask your pardon , again and again . ' Any merit that is not Boswell's or the ...
Stran ix
... never read Boswell's Life of Johnson , and who yet are capable of enjoying it to the tips of their fingers , is enormous , and yearly increases . To get hold of these people , to thrust Boswell into their hands , to obtrude him upon ...
... never read Boswell's Life of Johnson , and who yet are capable of enjoying it to the tips of their fingers , is enormous , and yearly increases . To get hold of these people , to thrust Boswell into their hands , to obtrude him upon ...
Stran x
... never could bring myself to take any pleasure in Calverley's famous Imaginary Examination Paper on Pickwick . It made me uneasy , since it showed dull fools how the thing might be done in deadly earnest . There is perhaps no book in the ...
... never could bring myself to take any pleasure in Calverley's famous Imaginary Examination Paper on Pickwick . It made me uneasy , since it showed dull fools how the thing might be done in deadly earnest . There is perhaps no book in the ...
Stran xviii
... never have got the sublime , ' I don't care to know about Pope . ' But though Boswell's personality , delightfully obtrusive as it is and provocative of a thousand humours , is inextricably mixed up with his success , he yet had a ...
... never have got the sublime , ' I don't care to know about Pope . ' But though Boswell's personality , delightfully obtrusive as it is and provocative of a thousand humours , is inextricably mixed up with his success , he yet had a ...
Stran xxi
... Never before nor since did a beggarly £ 300 a year of public money yield ( thanks mainly to Boswell ) such a harvest for the public good . Not only did it keep the Doctor himself in brown suits and bob - wigs , and provide a home for ...
... Never before nor since did a beggarly £ 300 a year of public money yield ( thanks mainly to Boswell ) such a harvest for the public good . Not only did it keep the Doctor himself in brown suits and bob - wigs , and provide a home for ...
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