Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... nature . I imagined something like an assassination of the King -like a gunpowder plot carried into execution - or like another fire of London . When asked , ' What is it , sir ? ' he answered , ' Mr. Thrale has lost his only son ...
... nature . I imagined something like an assassination of the King -like a gunpowder plot carried into execution - or like another fire of London . When asked , ' What is it , sir ? ' he answered , ' Mr. Thrale has lost his only son ...
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... nature and sympathy . I would have gone to the extremity of the earth to have preserved this boy . ' He was soon quite calm . The letter was from Mr. Thrale's clerk , and concluded , ' I need not say how much they wish to see you in ...
... nature and sympathy . I would have gone to the extremity of the earth to have preserved this boy . ' He was soon quite calm . The letter was from Mr. Thrale's clerk , and concluded , ' I need not say how much they wish to see you in ...
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... nature . ??? Next day we talked of a book in which an eminent judge was arraigned before the bar of the public , as having pronounced an unjust decision in a great cause . Dr. Johnson maintained that this publication would not give any ...
... nature . ??? Next day we talked of a book in which an eminent judge was arraigned before the bar of the public , as having pronounced an unjust decision in a great cause . Dr. Johnson maintained that this publication would not give any ...
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... Nature , in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but for the publication of which the ...
... Nature , in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of proceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but for the publication of which the ...
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... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way ; and it is certain that he was not " a very sturdy moralist . " This explanation appears to me very satisfactory . It is , however , to be observed , that the story told by ...
... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way ; and it is certain that he was not " a very sturdy moralist . " This explanation appears to me very satisfactory . It is , however , to be observed , that the story told by ...
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acquaintance admirable affectionate afterwards appeared Ashbourne Auchinleck believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop censure character Cibber consider conversation Court of Session dear sir death Dilly dined dinner Dodd Dodd's doubt drink edition Elkanah Settle English favour Garrick gentleman GEORGE STEEVENS give Goldsmith happy hear Hebrides honour hope Hugo Grotius humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John JOHNSON Edinburgh judge KNOWLES lady Langton late learned letter Lichfield lived London Lord Hailes Lord Monboddo madam mentioned mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion pain Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets praise recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotch Scotland sermons Seward Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Soame Jenyns Streatham style suppose sure talked Taylor tell things thought Thrale tion told truth uneasy Whig Wilkes William wine wish write written wrote