Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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James Boswell Augustine Birrell. INTRODUCTION MORE than sixty years ago , Carlyle , writing in Fraser's Magazine , observed in that manner of his which has now become part of our incorporate existence , that the new edition of Boswell ...
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. INTRODUCTION MORE than sixty years ago , Carlyle , writing in Fraser's Magazine , observed in that manner of his which has now become part of our incorporate existence , that the new edition of Boswell ...
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... 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 Travels for the nursery , nor did Sir Walter Scott , when he ...
... 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 Travels for the nursery , nor did Sir Walter Scott , when he ...
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... written his own life , but all subse- quent generations of English readers have good cause to rejoice that he did nothing to put Boswell off the track . Johnson soon got sick of a subject , and of no subject sooner than himself . He is ...
... written his own life , but all subse- quent generations of English readers have good cause to rejoice that he did nothing to put Boswell off the track . Johnson soon got sick of a subject , and of no subject sooner than himself . He is ...
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... written by wives , secretaries , or other domesticated creatures . The point of view of these persons soon becomes intolerable . Neither the purr of the hearth - rug nor the unemancipated admira- tion of the private secretary should be ...
... written by wives , secretaries , or other domesticated creatures . The point of view of these persons soon becomes intolerable . Neither the purr of the hearth - rug nor the unemancipated admira- tion of the private secretary should be ...
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... written in the margin of the copy which he had in part revised are here faithfully preserved ; and a few new notes have been added , principally by some of those friends to whom the author in the former editions acknowledged his ...
... written in the margin of the copy which he had in part revised are here faithfully preserved ; and a few new notes have been added , principally by some of those friends to whom the author in the former editions acknowledged his ...
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