Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... 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 quest of it . There xvi LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON How all this painstaking and drudgery ...
... 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 quest of it . There xvi LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON How all this painstaking and drudgery ...
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... wish it otherwise is to reconstruct human nature and to people the globe with another race of mortals . But to say that nobody reads Johnson is sheer non- sense . There is always somebody reading Johnson . Genius , thank Heaven , is ...
... wish it otherwise is to reconstruct human nature and to people the globe with another race of mortals . But to say that nobody reads Johnson is sheer non- sense . There is always somebody reading Johnson . Genius , thank Heaven , is ...
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... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
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... and several new notes , have been added ; by which , it is hoped , this valuable work is still further improved . January 1 , 1807 . E. M. After my death I wish no other herald , No xxxviii LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON ADVERTISEMENT TO THE ...
... and several new notes , have been added ; by which , it is hoped , this valuable work is still further improved . January 1 , 1807 . E. M. After my death I wish no other herald , No xxxviii LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON ADVERTISEMENT TO THE ...
Stran xxxix
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. After my death I wish no other herald , No other speaker of my living actions , To keep mine honour from corruption , But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.'1 SHAKESPEARE , Henry VIII . 1 See Dr ...
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. After my death I wish no other herald , No other speaker of my living actions , To keep mine honour from corruption , But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.'1 SHAKESPEARE , Henry VIII . 1 See Dr ...
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