Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4 |
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Stran 118
The concluding lines of this Prologue were these : " So pleads the tale ? that gives to future times The son's misfortunes and the parent's crimes ; There shall his fame ( if own'd to - night ) survive , Fix'd by THE HAND THAT BIDS OUR ...
The concluding lines of this Prologue were these : " So pleads the tale ? that gives to future times The son's misfortunes and the parent's crimes ; There shall his fame ( if own'd to - night ) survive , Fix'd by THE HAND THAT BIDS OUR ...
Stran 143
He this evening , as he had obligingly promised in one of his letters , put into my hands the whole series of his writings upon this melancholy occasion , and I shall present my readers with the abstract which I made from the collection ...
He this evening , as he had obligingly promised in one of his letters , put into my hands the whole series of his writings upon this melancholy occasion , and I shall present my readers with the abstract which I made from the collection ...
Stran 152
He said there was no power of thinking in his verses , nothing that strikes one , nothing better than what you generally find in magazines ; and that the highest praise they deserved was that they were very well for a gentleman to hand ...
He said there was no power of thinking in his verses , nothing that strikes one , nothing better than what you generally find in magazines ; and that the highest praise they deserved was that they were very well for a gentleman to hand ...
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