Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged)Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 228 strani |
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Stran vi
... kind of St. Vitus's dance , a nervous disorder which led to hypochondria and settled melancholy . " My health , ' writes Johnson , 1 " has been , from my twentieth year , such as has seldom afforded me a single day of ease . " As we ...
... kind of St. Vitus's dance , a nervous disorder which led to hypochondria and settled melancholy . " My health , ' writes Johnson , 1 " has been , from my twentieth year , such as has seldom afforded me a single day of ease . " As we ...
Stran viii
... kind care he showed to his oyster - fed pet cat , and much more in his love for little children and in his considerate courtesy to servants . And in his loving care of the unhappy and ill- behaved dependents whom he gave refuge in his ...
... kind care he showed to his oyster - fed pet cat , and much more in his love for little children and in his considerate courtesy to servants . And in his loving care of the unhappy and ill- behaved dependents whom he gave refuge in his ...
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... and other women of social importance hovered about him ; and in the Lou- don drawing - rooms Johnson gradually found his place 1 Ben Jonson , John Dryden , Alexander Pope , and Johnson . and became among men and women a kind of social.
... and other women of social importance hovered about him ; and in the Lou- don drawing - rooms Johnson gradually found his place 1 Ben Jonson , John Dryden , Alexander Pope , and Johnson . and became among men and women a kind of social.
Stran xii
James Boswell Gerard Edward Jensen. and became among men and women a kind of social lion . The force of Johnson's personality , his known intellec- tual powers , and his rare conversational gift made his in- fluence in his own age very ...
James Boswell Gerard Edward Jensen. and became among men and women a kind of social lion . The force of Johnson's personality , his known intellec- tual powers , and his rare conversational gift made his in- fluence in his own age very ...
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... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Me- moirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most vol- uminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , a man , whom ...
... kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Me- moirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most vol- uminous of which is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , a man , whom ...
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