Boswell's Life of Johnsonanboco, 7. sep. 2016 - 1236 strani Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single biographical work in the whole of literature," James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. |
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... Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there.' That a man ... Pembroke College on the 31st of October, 1728, being then in his nineteenth year. The Reverend Dr. Adams, who ...
... Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there.' That a man ... Pembroke College on the 31st of October, 1728, being then in his nineteenth year. The Reverend Dr. Adams, who ...
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... Pembroke College was that upon the second floor, over the gateway. The enthusiasts of learning will ever contemplate it with veneration. One day, while he was sitting in it quite alone, Dr. Panting, then master of the College, whom he ...
... Pembroke College was that upon the second floor, over the gateway. The enthusiasts of learning will ever contemplate it with veneration. One day, while he was sitting in it quite alone, Dr. Panting, then master of the College, whom he ...
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... College, the Reverend William Adams, D.D., who was then very young, and one of the junior fellows; that the mild but ... Pembroke College, which he retained to the last. A short time before his death he sent to that College a present of ...
... College, the Reverend William Adams, D.D., who was then very young, and one of the junior fellows; that the mild but ... Pembroke College, which he retained to the last. A short time before his death he sent to that College a present of ...
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... Pembroke were poets; adding, with a smile of sportive triumph, 'Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.' He was not, however, blind to what he thought the defects of his own College; and I have, from the information of Dr. Taylor, a very ...
... Pembroke were poets; adding, with a smile of sportive triumph, 'Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.' He was not, however, blind to what he thought the defects of his own College; and I have, from the information of Dr. Taylor, a very ...
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