Boswell's Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... truth , and boasted of the scrupu- lous accuracy of the journal wherein he had narrated events of which he had had personal knowledge . But how far had he gone in heightening and colouring the scene ? In a large general fashion the ...
... truth , and boasted of the scrupu- lous accuracy of the journal wherein he had narrated events of which he had had personal knowledge . But how far had he gone in heightening and colouring the scene ? In a large general fashion the ...
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... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
Stran 21
... truth ' . ' " What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversa- tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which ...
... truth ' . ' " What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversa- tion ; which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and entertaining ; and of which ...
Stran 28
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told ' , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told ' , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
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... truth of Virgil's noble sentiment- • Igneus est ollis vigor et cœlestis origo . ' The history of his mind as to religion is an important article . I have mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination by his mother ...
... truth of Virgil's noble sentiment- • Igneus est ollis vigor et cœlestis origo . ' The history of his mind as to religion is an important article . I have mentioned the early impressions made upon his tender imagination by his mother ...
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