Boswell's Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... humour as they were capable of pro- ducing . Addison gives a specimen of this ribaldry in Number 383 of the Spectator , when Sir Roger de Cov- erly and he are going to Spring - garden . Johnson was once eminently successful in this ...
... humour as they were capable of pro- ducing . Addison gives a specimen of this ribaldry in Number 383 of the Spectator , when Sir Roger de Cov- erly and he are going to Spring - garden . Johnson was once eminently successful in this ...
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... humour . But though Mr. Topham Beauclerk used archly to mention Johnson's having told him , with much gravity , Sir , it was a love marriage on both sides , ' I have had from my illustrious friend the following curious account of their ...
... humour . But though Mr. Topham Beauclerk used archly to mention Johnson's having told him , with much gravity , Sir , it was a love marriage on both sides , ' I have had from my illustrious friend the following curious account of their ...
Stran 147
... his style did not escape the harmless shafts of pleasant humour ; for the ingenious Bonnell Thornton published a mock Rambler in the Drury - lane Journal . 2 Idler , No. 70 . 148 JOHNSON'S MASTERS IN STYLE [ 1750 style upon that.
... his style did not escape the harmless shafts of pleasant humour ; for the ingenious Bonnell Thornton published a mock Rambler in the Drury - lane Journal . 2 Idler , No. 70 . 148 JOHNSON'S MASTERS IN STYLE [ 1750 style upon that.
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... humour agreed to their proposal : ' What , is it you , you dogs ! I'll have a frisk with you . ' He was soon drest , and they sallied forth together into Covent - Garden , where the greengrocers and fruiterers were beginning to arrange ...
... humour agreed to their proposal : ' What , is it you , you dogs ! I'll have a frisk with you . ' He was soon drest , and they sallied forth together into Covent - Garden , where the greengrocers and fruiterers were beginning to arrange ...
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... humour , of which he had an uncommon share . Nor on some occasions has he repressed that power of sophistry which he possessed in so eminent a degree . In No. 11 , he treats with the utmost contempt the opinion that our mental faculties ...
... humour , of which he had an uncommon share . Nor on some occasions has he repressed that power of sophistry which he possessed in so eminent a degree . In No. 11 , he treats with the utmost contempt the opinion that our mental faculties ...
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