Boswell's Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... soon escape the memory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most pro- minent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily ...
... soon escape the memory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how few can pourtray a living acquaintance , except by his most pro- minent and observable particularities , and the grosser features of his mind ; and it may be easily ...
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... soon done , one Osborn , who was Mr. Warren's printer , was set to work with what was ready , and Johnson engaged to supply the press with copy as it should be wanted ; but his constitutional indolence soon prevailed , and the work was ...
... soon done , one Osborn , who was Mr. Warren's printer , was set to work with what was ready , and Johnson engaged to supply the press with copy as it should be wanted ; but his constitutional indolence soon prevailed , and the work was ...
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... Soon must this bough , as you shall fix his doom , Adorn Philander's head , or grace his tomb " . " A prize of fifty pounds for the best poem on ' Life , Death , Judgement , Heaven , and Hell . ' See Gent . Mag . vol . iv . p . 560. N ...
... Soon must this bough , as you shall fix his doom , Adorn Philander's head , or grace his tomb " . " A prize of fifty pounds for the best poem on ' Life , Death , Judgement , Heaven , and Hell . ' See Gent . Mag . vol . iv . p . 560. N ...
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... soon come up with me . When she did , I observed her to be in tears . ' This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of con- nubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved ...
... soon come up with me . When she did , I observed her to be in tears . ' This , it must be allowed , was a singular beginning of con- nubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus shewed a manly firmness , proved ...
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... soon ; for a pleasure I shall always think it , to converse in any manner with an ingenious and candid man ; but having the inclosed poem in my hands to dispose of for the benefit of the authour , ( of whose abilities I shall say ...
... soon ; for a pleasure I shall always think it , to converse in any manner with an ingenious and candid man ; but having the inclosed poem in my hands to dispose of for the benefit of the authour , ( of whose abilities I shall say ...
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