Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran xvi
... suppose , sir , Mr. Boswell thought that as you are to write Pope's life you would wish to know about him . JOHNSON : Wish ! Why , yes . If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand , but I would not give myself the trouble to go in ...
... suppose , sir , Mr. Boswell thought that as you are to write Pope's life you would wish to know about him . JOHNSON : Wish ! Why , yes . If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand , but I would not give myself the trouble to go in ...
Stran xvii
... suppose Black Frank , his servant and residuary legatee , ever read a line of the great biography . There was no daughter married to a well - to - do trades- man to put her pen through the pathetic passages relating to old Michael ...
... suppose Black Frank , his servant and residuary legatee , ever read a line of the great biography . There was no daughter married to a well - to - do trades- man to put her pen through the pathetic passages relating to old Michael ...
Stran xxiii
... suppose you should go over and find that it is really taken , that would only satisfy yourself - for when you come home we will not believe you . We will say you have been bribed . Yet , sir , notwithstanding all these plausible ...
... suppose you should go over and find that it is really taken , that would only satisfy yourself - for when you come home we will not believe you . We will say you have been bribed . Yet , sir , notwithstanding all these plausible ...
Stran xxvii
... suppose that the tenor of the rest of the book would sufficiently guard me against such a strange imputation . But it seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed ...
... suppose that the tenor of the rest of the book would sufficiently guard me against such a strange imputation . But it seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed ...
Stran 41
... suppose at five years old ] in his father's shop , entitled , De Veritate Religionis , etc. , he began to think himself highly culpable for neglecting such a means of information , and took himself severely to task for this sin , adding ...
... suppose at five years old ] in his father's shop , entitled , De Veritate Religionis , etc. , he began to think himself highly culpable for neglecting such a means of information , and took himself severely to task for this sin , adding ...
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