Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran xi
... strange to us then and now - that insignificant - looking passage where Charles , after the battle of Worcester , glides down with Squire Careless from the Royal Oak at nightfall , being hungry ; how , making a shift to get over hedges ...
... strange to us then and now - that insignificant - looking passage where Charles , after the battle of Worcester , glides down with Squire Careless from the Royal Oak at nightfall , being hungry ; how , making a shift to get over hedges ...
Stran xiv
... strange book , which ought at least to be in the usually small library of every owner of racehorses , the Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft , the author records how Mr. Lowe ( who will be found mentioned in the biography ) told him the ...
... strange book , which ought at least to be in the usually small library of every owner of racehorses , the Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft , the author records how Mr. Lowe ( who will be found mentioned in the biography ) told him the ...
Stran xxvii
... strange imputation . But it 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 ...
... strange imputation . But it 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 ...
Stran 4
... strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where there is such a dull , heavy succession of long quotations of ...
... strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had rather read the worst of them , than be obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where there is such a dull , heavy succession of long quotations of ...
Stran 34
... strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation , he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius ; and thus he gave the first im- pression of that more extensive ...
... strange to them ; but he behaved modestly , and sat silent , till upon something which occurred in the course of conversation , he suddenly struck in and quoted Macrobius ; and thus he gave the first im- pression of that more extensive ...
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