Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... sometimes the vacuity closes up of itself . ' Mr. Seward and Mr. Pearson , another clergyman here , supped with us at our inn , and after they left us , we sat up late , as we used to do in London . Here I shall record some fragments of ...
... sometimes the vacuity closes up of itself . ' Mr. Seward and Mr. Pearson , another clergyman here , supped with us at our inn , and after they left us , we sat up late , as we used to do in London . Here I shall record some fragments of ...
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... sometimes in conversation main- tain opinions which he was sensible were wrong , but in supporting which his reasoning and wit would be most conspicuous . He would begin thus : " Why , sir , as to the good or evil of card - playing ...
... sometimes in conversation main- tain opinions which he was sensible were wrong , but in supporting which his reasoning and wit would be most conspicuous . He would begin thus : " Why , sir , as to the good or evil of card - playing ...
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... sometimes to incommode many of his friends , by carrying her with him to their houses , where , from her manner of eating , in consequence of her blindness , she could not but offend the delicacy of persons of nice sensations . After ...
... sometimes to incommode many of his friends , by carrying her with him to their houses , where , from her manner of eating , in consequence of her blindness , she could not but offend the delicacy of persons of nice sensations . After ...
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... sometimes that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the Poets , was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud a large portion of him , and then asked , —Is not this fine ...
... sometimes that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled Cibber's Lives of the Poets , was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud a large portion of him , and then asked , —Is not this fine ...
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... sometimes made his conversation seem too desultory , Johnson observed , ' Oglethorpe , sir , never completes what he has to say . ' He on the same account made a similar remark on Patrick , Lord Elibank : ' Sir , there is nothing con ...
... sometimes made his conversation seem too desultory , Johnson observed , ' Oglethorpe , sir , never completes what he has to say . ' He on the same account made a similar remark on Patrick , Lord Elibank : ' Sir , there is nothing con ...
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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