Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776-1780; v.4, 1780-1784)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran xiii
... Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , I described Oxford as it was known to Johnson , and I threw light on more than one important passage in the Life . The following year I edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour to Corsica and his curious ...
... Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , I described Oxford as it was known to Johnson , and I threw light on more than one important passage in the Life . The following year I edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour to Corsica and his curious ...
Stran xviii
... Lord Kames was quite just " . The ardent advocates of total abstinence will not , I fear , be pleased at finding at the end of my long note on Johnson's wine - drinking that I have been obliged to show that he thought that the gout from ...
... Lord Kames was quite just " . The ardent advocates of total abstinence will not , I fear , be pleased at finding at the end of my long note on Johnson's wine - drinking that I have been obliged to show that he thought that the gout from ...
Stran xix
... Lord Macaulay's wild and wanton rhetoric , shown how ardent and how elevated was the curiosity with which Johnson's mind was possessed . In another essay I have explained , I do not say justified , his strong feelings towards the ...
... Lord Macaulay's wild and wanton rhetoric , shown how ardent and how elevated was the curiosity with which Johnson's mind was possessed . In another essay I have explained , I do not say justified , his strong feelings towards the ...
Stran xx
... Lord Bolingbroke says was once shown to lexicographers ? ' I approve , ' writes his Lordship , ' the devotion of a studious man at Christ Church , who was overheard in his oratory entering into a detail with God , and acknowledging the ...
... Lord Bolingbroke says was once shown to lexicographers ? ' I approve , ' writes his Lordship , ' the devotion of a studious man at Christ Church , who was overheard in his oratory entering into a detail with God , and acknowledging the ...
Stran xxii
... Lord Macaulay was foolishness , was altogether hidden from his dull eye . No one surely but a ' blockhead , ' a ' barren rascal ' , ' could with scissors and paste - pot have mangled the biography which of all others is the delight and ...
... Lord Macaulay was foolishness , was altogether hidden from his dull eye . No one surely but a ' blockhead , ' a ' barren rascal ' , ' could with scissors and paste - pot have mangled the biography which of all others is the delight and ...
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