Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Henry Frowde, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... London , the great field of genius and exertion , where talents of every kind have the fullest scope , and the highest encouragement . It is a memorable circumstance that his pupil David Garrick went thither at the same time 1 , with ...
... London , the great field of genius and exertion , where talents of every kind have the fullest scope , and the highest encouragement . It is a memorable circumstance that his pupil David Garrick went thither at the same time 1 , with ...
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... London together . Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week , and Mr. John- son to try his fate with a tragedy , and to see to get himself employed in some translation , either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very ...
... London together . Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week , and Mr. John- son to try his fate with a tragedy , and to see to get himself employed in some translation , either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very ...
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... London , I have heard him relate , was an Irish painter , whom he knew at Birming- ham , and who had practised his own precepts of œconomy for several years in the British capital . He assured Johnson , who , I suppose , was then ...
... London , I have heard him relate , was an Irish painter , whom he knew at Birming- ham , and who had practised his own precepts of œconomy for several years in the British capital . He assured Johnson , who , I suppose , was then ...
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... London , where Johnson was frequently entertained , and had an opportunity of meeting genteel company . Not very long before his death , he mentioned this , among other particulars of his life , which he was kindly communicating to me ...
... London , where Johnson was frequently entertained , and had an opportunity of meeting genteel company . Not very long before his death , he mentioned this , among other particulars of his life , which he was kindly communicating to me ...
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... London , there were two sets of people , those who gave the wall , and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was one of 76 ...
... London , there were two sets of people , those who gave the wall , and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I returned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was one of 76 ...
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