Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Henry Frowde, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the pro- gress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it ...
... human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the pro- gress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it ...
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... Human Wishes imitated from Juvenal ; his Prologue on the opening of Drury- Lane Theatre by Mr. Garrick , and his Irene , a Tragedy , they are very numerous , and in general short ; and I have promised a complete edition of them , in ...
... Human Wishes imitated from Juvenal ; his Prologue on the opening of Drury- Lane Theatre by Mr. Garrick , and his Irene , a Tragedy , they are very numerous , and in general short ; and I have promised a complete edition of them , in ...
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... human nature . Talking to me once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , ' they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a ...
... human nature . Talking to me once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , ' they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a ...
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... human race ; I'll sing of Chloe's charms divine , Her heav'nly voice , and beauteous face . Translation of HORACE . Book II . Ode ix . CLOUDS do not always veil the skies , Nor showers immerse the verdant plain ; Nor do the billows ...
... human race ; I'll sing of Chloe's charms divine , Her heav'nly voice , and beauteous face . Translation of HORACE . Book II . Ode ix . CLOUDS do not always veil the skies , Nor showers immerse the verdant plain ; Nor do the billows ...
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... human nature , was at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive , that they who know it by dire experience , will not envy his exalted endowments . That it was , in some degree , occa- sioned by a defect in his nervous system ...
... human nature , was at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive , that they who know it by dire experience , will not envy his exalted endowments . That it was , in some degree , occa- sioned by a defect in his nervous system ...
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