Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 3Harper, 1891 |
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... Goldsmith's History of Animated Nature , in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of pro- ceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but ...
... Goldsmith's History of Animated Nature , in which that celebrated mathematician is represented as being subject to fits of yawning so violent as to render him incapable of pro- ceeding in his lecture ; a story altogether unfounded , but ...
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... Goldsmith , i . 161. ) As the Monthly Review was his prop- erty , the passage quoted by Boswell was , no doubt , written by his direction . D'Israeli ( Curiosities of Literature , ed . 1834 , vi . 375 ) says that Oldys ( ante , i . 202 ) ...
... Goldsmith , i . 161. ) As the Monthly Review was his prop- erty , the passage quoted by Boswell was , no doubt , written by his direction . D'Israeli ( Curiosities of Literature , ed . 1834 , vi . 375 ) says that Oldys ( ante , i . 202 ) ...
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... Goldsmith , i . 100 . ' A fourth share in The Monthly Review was sold in 1761 for £ 755 . ' A Bookseller of the Last Century , p . 19 . See ante , ii . 45 . • Horace Walpole writes : -The scope of the Critical Review was to decry any ...
... Goldsmith , i . 100 . ' A fourth share in The Monthly Review was sold in 1761 for £ 755 . ' A Bookseller of the Last Century , p . 19 . See ante , ii . 45 . • Horace Walpole writes : -The scope of the Critical Review was to decry any ...
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... Goldsmith ( he said , ) referred every thing to vanity ; his virtues , and his vices too , were from that motive . not a social man . He never exchanged mind with you . ' We spent the evening at Mr. Hoole's . Mr. Mickle , the excellent ...
... Goldsmith ( he said , ) referred every thing to vanity ; his virtues , and his vices too , were from that motive . not a social man . He never exchanged mind with you . ' We spent the evening at Mr. Hoole's . Mr. Mickle , the excellent ...
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... Goldsmith said the same thing ; only he said it in a softer manner than Goldsmith did ; for he acknowl- edged that there was no poetry , nothing that towered above the common mark . You may find wit and humour in verse , and yet no ...
... Goldsmith said the same thing ; only he said it in a softer manner than Goldsmith did ; for he acknowl- edged that there was no poetry , nothing that towered above the common mark . You may find wit and humour in verse , and yet no ...
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