Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 2Crowell |
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Stran 122
... merit to a player.” JOHNSON: “Merit, Sir, what merit? Do you respect a rope-dancer, or a ballad-singer?” Boswell.: “No, Sir ; but we respect a great player, as a man who can conceive lofty sentiments, and can express them gracefully ...
... merit to a player.” JOHNSON: “Merit, Sir, what merit? Do you respect a rope-dancer, or a ballad-singer?” Boswell.: “No, Sir ; but we respect a great player, as a man who can conceive lofty sentiments, and can express them gracefully ...
Stran 184
... merit in the fairest point of view: and I contrived that Lord Percy should hear the correspondence, by introducing it at General Paoli's, as an instance of Dr. Johnson's kind disposition towards one in whom his Lordship was interested ...
... merit in the fairest point of view: and I contrived that Lord Percy should hear the correspondence, by introducing it at General Paoli's, as an instance of Dr. Johnson's kind disposition towards one in whom his Lordship was interested ...
Stran 408
... merit should consider thus: How much harder would it be, if the same persons had both all the merit and all the prosperity. Would not this be a miserable distribution for the poor dunces? Would men of merit exchange their intellectual ...
... merit should consider thus: How much harder would it be, if the same persons had both all the merit and all the prosperity. Would not this be a miserable distribution for the poor dunces? Would men of merit exchange their intellectual ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson (Volume 1 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) James Boswell Omejen predogled - 1962 |
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