Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran x
... perhaps no book in the whole range of English literature so richly endowed with those qualities of interest , charm , humour , and life which go to make up enjoyment , as Boswell's Life of Johnson . To begin with , it is a big book . It ...
... perhaps no book in the whole range of English literature so richly endowed with those qualities of interest , charm , humour , and life which go to make up enjoyment , as Boswell's Life of Johnson . To begin with , it is a big book . It ...
Stran xi
... perhaps somehow accidentally opened to it certainly with a depth of impression strange to us then and now - that insignificant - looking passage where Charles , after the battle of Worcester , glides down with Squire Careless from the ...
... perhaps somehow accidentally opened to it certainly with a depth of impression strange to us then and now - that insignificant - looking passage where Charles , after the battle of Worcester , glides down with Squire Careless from the ...
Stran xxix
... perhaps , hard as it may be , I shall not be surprised if omissions or mistakes be pointed out with invidious severity . I have also been extremely careful as to the exactness of my quotations ; holding that there is a respect due to ...
... perhaps , hard as it may be , I shall not be surprised if omissions or mistakes be pointed out with invidious severity . I have also been extremely careful as to the exactness of my quotations ; holding that there is a respect due to ...
Stran 9
... beforehand whether what may seem trifling to some , and perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge , LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON.
... beforehand whether what may seem trifling to some , and perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge , LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON.
Stran 11
... beforehand whether what may seem trifling to some , and perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an author can please in any degree , the LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 9.
... beforehand whether what may seem trifling to some , and perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an author can please in any degree , the LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 9.
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