Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged)Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 228 strani |
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Stran 10
... remember , ( says Hale , ) when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal , that there is likewise a pity due to the country . " If we owe regard to the memory of the dead , there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue ...
... remember , ( says Hale , ) when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal , that there is likewise a pity due to the country . " If we owe regard to the memory of the dead , there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue ...
Stran 21
... remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbutim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diversions : his ...
... remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little pause , he repeated verbutim , varying only one epithet , by which he improved the line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diversions : his ...
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... remember , by computing how much more expense was absolutely necessary to live upon the same scale with that which his friend described , when the value of money was diminished by the progress of commerce . It may be esti- mated that ...
... remember , by computing how much more expense was absolutely necessary to live upon the same scale with that which his friend described , when the value of money was diminished by the progress of commerce . It may be esti- mated that ...
Stran 43
... remembers well the effect which London produced . Every body was delighted with it ; and there being no name to it , the first buz of the literary circles was ' here is an unknown poet , greater even than Pope . ' And it is recorded in ...
... remembers well the effect which London produced . Every body was delighted with it ; and there being no name to it , the first buz of the literary circles was ' here is an unknown poet , greater even than Pope . ' And it is recorded in ...
Stran 52
... remember his telling me , that a large portion of it having by mistake been written upon . both sides of the paper , so as to be inconvenient for the compositor , it cost him twenty pounds to have it tran- scribed upon one side only ...
... remember his telling me , that a large portion of it having by mistake been written upon . both sides of the paper , so as to be inconvenient for the compositor , it cost him twenty pounds to have it tran- scribed upon one side only ...
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acquaintance admiration ÆTAT afterwards answered appeared asked Beauclerk BENNET LANGTON Bishop booksellers Boswell Boswell's Burke Burney celebrated character Cibber conversation David Garrick dear Sir death Dictionary Dilly dined dinner Dodsley drink Edwards eminent favour Francis Barber Garrick gave gentleman give Goldsmith happy heard Hebrides honour hope humour imagination JAMES BOSWELL kind King knew labour lady Langton language letter Lichfield Literary Club literature lived London Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind nature never observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College Percy pleased pleasure poet Pope publick recollect respect Richardson Robert Dodsley SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seemed servant shewed Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds spirit strong supposed talk tell thing Thomas Warton thought Thrale tion told topicks truth Wilkes William wine wish wonder write wrote