Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 6A. Constable and Company, Limited, 1901 |
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... John Pitts , late Rector of Great Brickhill , in Buckinghamshire : ' Perhaps no scrap of Latin whatever has been more quoted than this . It occasionally falls even from those who are scrupulous even to pedantry in their Latinity , and ...
... John Pitts , late Rector of Great Brickhill , in Buckinghamshire : ' Perhaps no scrap of Latin whatever has been more quoted than this . It occasionally falls even from those who are scrupulous even to pedantry in their Latinity , and ...
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... John- son was much pleased with it , and said , ' It wants no addition or correction , but a few lines of introduction , ' which he furnished , and Sir William adopted.2 1 The Honourable Horace Walpole , late Earl of Orford , thus bears ...
... John- son was much pleased with it , and said , ' It wants no addition or correction , but a few lines of introduction , ' which he furnished , and Sir William adopted.2 1 The Honourable Horace Walpole , late Earl of Orford , thus bears ...
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... John Dunton , in his Life , says , that ' Mr. William Bradshaw received from Mr. Midgeley forty shillings a sheet for writing part of the Turkish Spy ; but I do not find that he anywhere mentions Sault as engaged in that work.-M. ] He ...
... John Dunton , in his Life , says , that ' Mr. William Bradshaw received from Mr. Midgeley forty shillings a sheet for writing part of the Turkish Spy ; but I do not find that he anywhere mentions Sault as engaged in that work.-M. ] He ...
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... JOHN- SON : ' I hope not . ' WALKER : ' I have taught only one , and he is the best reader I ever heard , not by my teaching , but by his own natural talents . ' JOHN- SON : ' Were he the best reader in the world , I would not have it ...
... JOHN- SON : ' I hope not . ' WALKER : ' I have taught only one , and he is the best reader I ever heard , not by my teaching , but by his own natural talents . ' JOHN- SON : ' Were he the best reader in the world , I would not have it ...
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... JOHN- SON : Originally there were not ; but by using words negligently , or in poetry , one word comes to be con- founded with another . ' He talked of Dr. Dodd . A friend of mine ( said he ) came to me and told me , that a lady wished ...
... JOHN- SON : Originally there were not ; but by using words negligently , or in poetry , one word comes to be con- founded with another . ' He talked of Dr. Dodd . A friend of mine ( said he ) came to me and told me , that a lady wished ...
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