Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 4Harper, 1891 |
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... Scotland for Metaphysicks , ) he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : - ' Dr. Johnson has remarked , that " time toil'd after him in vain . " But I should apprehend , that this is entirely to mistake the ...
... Scotland for Metaphysicks , ) he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : - ' Dr. Johnson has remarked , that " time toil'd after him in vain . " But I should apprehend , that this is entirely to mistake the ...
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... Scotland , Sir George Mac- kenzie , he asked me why I did not imitate in my verses the turns of Mr. Waller , and Sir John Denham . . . . This hint , thus seasonably given me , first made me sensible of my own wants , and brought me ...
... Scotland , Sir George Mac- kenzie , he asked me why I did not imitate in my verses the turns of Mr. Waller , and Sir John Denham . . . . This hint , thus seasonably given me , first made me sensible of my own wants , and brought me ...
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... Scotland . BOSWELL . 2 See ante , ii . 338 . 3 * Macaulay wrote of Hastings's answer to this letter : - ' It is a re- markable circumstance that one of the letters of Hastings to Dr. John- son bears date a very few hours after the death ...
... Scotland . BOSWELL . 2 See ante , ii . 338 . 3 * Macaulay wrote of Hastings's answer to this letter : - ' It is a re- markable circumstance that one of the letters of Hastings to Dr. John- son bears date a very few hours after the death ...
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... Scotland ' . His husbandry ' , however , is good . ' BOSWELL . So he was fitter for that than for heroick history : he did well , when he turned his sword into a plough- share . ' Mr. Eliot mentioned a curious liquor peculiar to his ...
... Scotland ' . His husbandry ' , however , is good . ' BOSWELL . So he was fitter for that than for heroick history : he did well , when he turned his sword into a plough- share . ' Mr. Eliot mentioned a curious liquor peculiar to his ...
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... Scotland ( ante , i . 520 ) , whose extraordinary talents , learning , and virtues , will ever be remembered with admiration and regret . BOSWELL . See ante , iv . 75 , note 2 , which describes an attack made by Johnson on Pepys more ...
... Scotland ( ante , i . 520 ) , whose extraordinary talents , learning , and virtues , will ever be remembered with admiration and regret . BOSWELL . See ante , iv . 75 , note 2 , which describes an attack made by Johnson on Pepys more ...
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