Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged)Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 228 strani |
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... tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have given upon a former occasion , 2 have been received with so much approbation , that I have good ...
... tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which the specimens that I have given upon a former occasion , 2 have been received with so much approbation , that I have good ...
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... tion one curious instance of his casual reading , when but a boy . Having imagined that his brother had hid some apples behind a large folio upon an upper shelf in his father's shop , he climbed up to search for them . There were no ...
... tion one curious instance of his casual reading , when but a boy . Having imagined that his brother had hid some apples behind a large folio upon an upper shelf in his father's shop , he climbed up to search for them . There were no ...
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... tion should have so far deceived him , is strange ; but it is stranger still that some of his friends should have given credit to his groundless opinion , when they had such un- doubted proofs that it was totally fallacious ; though it ...
... tion should have so far deceived him , is strange ; but it is stranger still that some of his friends should have given credit to his groundless opinion , when they had such un- doubted proofs that it was totally fallacious ; though it ...
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... tion ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects , may not grow weary . ' He communicated to me the following particulars upon the subject of his religious progress . ' I fell into an inat- tention to religion ...
... tion ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects , may not grow weary . ' He communicated to me the following particulars upon the subject of his religious progress . ' I fell into an inat- tention to religion ...
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... tion ; & wrote to my Ld gore , but he did not succeed . Mr. Johnson published afterwds another Poem in Latin with Notes the whole very Humerous call'd the Norfolk Proph- ecy . P. ' Johnson had been told of this note ; and Sir Joshua ...
... tion ; & wrote to my Ld gore , but he did not succeed . Mr. Johnson published afterwds another Poem in Latin with Notes the whole very Humerous call'd the Norfolk Proph- ecy . P. ' Johnson had been told of this note ; and Sir Joshua ...
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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