Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Thomas Y. Crowell, 1892 - 526 strani |
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... English stage , as well as for poetical excellence , is unrivalled . Like the celebrated Epilogue to the " Distressed Mother , " 3 it was , during the season , often called for by the audience . The most striking and brilliant passages ...
... English stage , as well as for poetical excellence , is unrivalled . Like the celebrated Epilogue to the " Distressed Mother , " 3 it was , during the season , often called for by the audience . The most striking and brilliant passages ...
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... English nation cultivated both their soil and their reason better than any other people ; but admitted that the French , though not the highest , perhaps , in any department of literature , yet in every department were very high ...
... English nation cultivated both their soil and their reason better than any other people ; but admitted that the French , though not the highest , perhaps , in any department of literature , yet in every department were very high ...
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... English friend that Dr. Johnson could never have used the phrase almost nothing , as not being English ; and there- fore I have put another in its place . At the same time , I am not quite convinced it is not good English . For the best ...
... English friend that Dr. Johnson could never have used the phrase almost nothing , as not being English ; and there- fore I have put another in its place . At the same time , I am not quite convinced it is not good English . For the best ...
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