Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran xviii
... wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , ' and he tells that in- imitable story , so full of the marrow and fatness of our life here below , how the great Dr. Clarke ceased his merriment when he saw Beau Nash approaching ...
... wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , ' and he tells that in- imitable story , so full of the marrow and fatness of our life here below , how the great Dr. Clarke ceased his merriment when he saw Beau Nash approaching ...
Stran xxvii
... wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , freely showed to the world its dexterity , even when I was myself the object of it . I trusted that I should be liberally understood , as knowing very well what I was about , and by ...
... wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , freely showed to the world its dexterity , even when I was myself the object of it . I trusted that I should be liberally understood , as knowing very well what I was about , and by ...
Stran xxxii
... wonderful powers of mind , when we consider that the principal store of wit and wisdom which this Work contains was not a particular selection from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the ...
... wonderful powers of mind , when we consider that the principal store of wit and wisdom which this Work contains was not a particular selection from his general conversation , but was merely his occasional talk at such times as I had the ...
Stran 18
... wonderful to think , prevailed so long in this country , as to the virtue of the regal touch - a notion which our kings encouraged , and to which a man of such inquiry and such judgment as Carte could give credit- -carried him to London ...
... wonderful to think , prevailed so long in this country , as to the virtue of the regal touch - a notion which our kings encouraged , and to which a man of such inquiry and such judgment as Carte could give credit- -carried him to London ...
Stran 23
... wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . ' Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend against the pernicious effects of idleness , that active sports ...
... wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . ' Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend against the pernicious effects of idleness , that active sports ...
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