Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Henry Frowde, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
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... wish no other herald , ' No other speaker of my living actions , ' To keep mine honour from corruption , ' But such an honest chronicler as Griffith ' . ' SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . [ Act IV . Sc . 2. ] 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs ...
... wish no other herald , ' No other speaker of my living actions , ' To keep mine honour from corruption , ' But such an honest chronicler as Griffith ' . ' SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . [ Act IV . Sc . 2. ] 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs ...
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James Boswell. 1738 ] HIS WISH TO PRACTISE LAW 91 man , without my adding any more to the trouble I have already given you , than assuring you that I am , with great truth , Sir , your faithful servant , ' Trentham , Aug. 1 , 1739 ...
James Boswell. 1738 ] HIS WISH TO PRACTISE LAW 91 man , without my adding any more to the trouble I have already given you , than assuring you that I am , with great truth , Sir , your faithful servant , ' Trentham , Aug. 1 , 1739 ...
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... wish him joy of his young wife . ' And after sentence of death , in the horrible terms in cases of treason , was pronounced upon him , and he was retiring from the bar , he said , ' Fare you well , my Lords , we shall not all meet again ...
... wish him joy of his young wife . ' And after sentence of death , in the horrible terms in cases of treason , was pronounced upon him , and he was retiring from the bar , he said , ' Fare you well , my Lords , we shall not all meet again ...
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... Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
... Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
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