Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran ix
... seems to me , that all our best books , our classics , were written either for children or for learned or half- learned editors and teachers , or it may be even for lecturers ; and yet Dr. Swift did not originally intend Gulliver's ...
... seems to me , that all our best books , our classics , were written either for children or for learned or half- learned editors and teachers , or it may be even for lecturers ; and yet Dr. Swift did not originally intend Gulliver's ...
Stran xxii
... seem to be good sense , brilliant wit , and a lively dialectical imagination , which enabled him joyfully and triumphantly to pursue his subject and crush his opponent with a vigour that gathered force as it pro- ceeded . No talk was ...
... seem to be good sense , brilliant wit , and a lively dialectical imagination , which enabled him joyfully and triumphantly to pursue his subject and crush his opponent with a vigour that gathered force as it pro- ceeded . No talk was ...
Stran xxvii
... seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to ...
... seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to ...
Stran xxxiii
... seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical Work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instruc- tive episodes ...
... seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical Work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instruc- tive episodes ...
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... seems to lay it down as a principle , that every life must be a book , and what's worse , it proves a book without a life ; for what do we know of Boileau , after all his tedious stuff ? You are the only one ( and I speak it without a ...
... seems to lay it down as a principle , that every life must be a book , and what's worse , it proves a book without a life ; for what do we know of Boileau , after all his tedious stuff ? You are the only one ( and I speak it without a ...
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