Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924 - 1384 strani |
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... perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an authour can please in any degree , the more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind . To those who are weak enough to think ...
... perhaps to the collector himself , may not be most agreeable to many ; and the greater number that an authour can please in any degree , the more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind . To those who are weak enough to think ...
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... perhaps , be allowed ; but , in general they are evidently an advantage , for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped . He that thinks with more extent than another , will want words of larger meaning 2. ' He once ...
... perhaps , be allowed ; but , in general they are evidently an advantage , for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped . He that thinks with more extent than another , will want words of larger meaning 2. ' He once ...
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... perhaps , may even now consider as not unworthy of an immortal spirit . ' Surely this is inconsistent with enmity towards Milton , ' which Sir John Hawkins imputes to Johnson upon this occasion , adding , ' I could all along observe ...
... perhaps , may even now consider as not unworthy of an immortal spirit . ' Surely this is inconsistent with enmity towards Milton , ' which Sir John Hawkins imputes to Johnson upon this occasion , adding , ' I could all along observe ...
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... perhaps no man ever more forcibly felt the truth of the sentiment so elegantly expressed by my friend Mr. Malone , in his Pro- logue to Mr. Jephson's tragedy of JULIA : - 2 ' Vain - wealth , and fame , and fortune's fostering care , If ...
... perhaps no man ever more forcibly felt the truth of the sentiment so elegantly expressed by my friend Mr. Malone , in his Pro- logue to Mr. Jephson's tragedy of JULIA : - 2 ' Vain - wealth , and fame , and fortune's fostering care , If ...
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... industry , accuracy , and judgement , equal to the import- ance of the subject . You might , perhaps , have chosen one in which your genius would have appeared to more advantage ; 1755 ] DR . BIRCH'S LETTER 191 but you could.
... industry , accuracy , and judgement , equal to the import- ance of the subject . You might , perhaps , have chosen one in which your genius would have appeared to more advantage ; 1755 ] DR . BIRCH'S LETTER 191 but you could.
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