Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged)Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 228 strani |
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... never own himself either tired or amused . " 3 The manly art of self- defense was not beneath his interest even in his later years 4 " I am sorry , " said Johnson , " that prize - fighting is gone out ; every art should be preserved ...
... never own himself either tired or amused . " 3 The manly art of self- defense was not beneath his interest even in his later years 4 " I am sorry , " said Johnson , " that prize - fighting is gone out ; every art should be preserved ...
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... never have been received into the society of the great ladies of the period . " I have seen the 1 See pp . 113-19 . a Hill's Letters of Samuel Johnson , 1 , 72 . 5 Ibid . , v , 25 . 2 See p . 172 . 4 Hill's Life , II , 75–76 . 6 Ibid ...
... never have been received into the society of the great ladies of the period . " I have seen the 1 See pp . 113-19 . a Hill's Letters of Samuel Johnson , 1 , 72 . 5 Ibid . , v , 25 . 2 See p . 172 . 4 Hill's Life , II , 75–76 . 6 Ibid ...
Stran viii
... never made him a coward . Toward the end of his life Johnson , when suffer- ing from dropsy , had the courage to operate on himself , and " with his usual resolute defiance of pain , cut deep , when he thought that his surgeon had done ...
... never made him a coward . Toward the end of his life Johnson , when suffer- ing from dropsy , had the courage to operate on himself , and " with his usual resolute defiance of pain , cut deep , when he thought that his surgeon had done ...
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... never wholly forgotten , the drudgery of his active life was often relieved by the relaxation of his social life . At the Literary Club , of which he was one of the found- ers and of which he was the leading spirit , Johnson was at his ...
... never wholly forgotten , the drudgery of his active life was often relieved by the relaxation of his social life . At the Literary Club , of which he was one of the found- ers and of which he was the leading spirit , Johnson was at his ...
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... NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT - BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quò fit ut OMNIS Votira pateat veluti descripta ...
... NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT - BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quò fit ut OMNIS Votira pateat veluti descripta ...
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