Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged)Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 228 strani |
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... soon for- got his uncouthness . " His conversation , " says Boswell , " soon charmed [ Mrs. Boswell ] into a forgetfulness of his personal appearance . " In the Memoirs of Dr. Burney ( 11 , 91 ) , Fanny Burney , describing her first ...
... soon for- got his uncouthness . " His conversation , " says Boswell , " soon charmed [ Mrs. Boswell ] into a forgetfulness of his personal appearance . " In the Memoirs of Dr. Burney ( 11 , 91 ) , Fanny Burney , describing her first ...
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... soon escape the mem- ory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily ...
... soon escape the mem- ory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most prominent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily ...
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... soon found could be of much service to him in his trade , by his knowledge of literature ; and he even obtained the assistance of his pen in furnish- ing some numbers of a periodical Essay printed in the newspaper , 1 of which Warren ...
... soon found could be of much service to him in his trade , by his knowledge of literature ; and he even obtained the assistance of his pen in furnish- ing some numbers of a periodical Essay printed in the newspaper , 1 of which Warren ...
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... Soon must this bough , as you shall fix his doom , Adorn Philander's head , or grace his tomb . ' In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is ...
... Soon must this bough , as you shall fix his doom , Adorn Philander's head , or grace his tomb . ' In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is ...
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... soon come up with me . When she did , I ob served her to be in tears . ' This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of connubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved a ...
... soon come up with me . When she did , I ob served her to be in tears . ' This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of connubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved a ...
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