Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran xxix
... probably be thought ridiculously ostentatious . Let me only ob- serve , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have some- times been obliged to run half over London in order to fix a date correctly , which , when I had accom- plished , I ...
... probably be thought ridiculously ostentatious . Let me only ob- serve , as a specimen of my trouble , that I have some- times been obliged to run half over London in order to fix a date correctly , which , when I had accom- plished , I ...
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... probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had ...
... probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited . But although he at different times , in a desultory manner , committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had ...
Stran 35
... probably have produced something sublime upon the gunpowder plot . To apologise for his neglect , he gave in a short copy of verses , entitled Somnium , containing a common thought ; ' that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and ...
... probably have produced something sublime upon the gunpowder plot . To apologise for his neglect , he gave in a short copy of verses , entitled Somnium , containing a common thought ; ' that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and ...
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... probably got a little money from Mr. Warren ; and we are certain that he executed here one piece of literary labour of which Mr. Hector has favoured me with a minute account . Having mentioned that he had read at Pembroke College a ...
... probably got a little money from Mr. Warren ; and we are certain that he executed here one piece of literary labour of which Mr. Hector has favoured me with a minute account . Having mentioned that he had read at Pembroke College a ...
Stran 68
... probably , as is the case in all such representations , considerably aggravated the picture . That Johnson well knew the most proper course to be pursued in the instruction of youth , is authentically ascertained by the following paper ...
... probably , as is the case in all such representations , considerably aggravated the picture . That Johnson well knew the most proper course to be pursued in the instruction of youth , is authentically ascertained by the following paper ...
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