Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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... Italy . I'll go to Padua . — And I'll mind my business . For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . ' Dr. Adams told me that Johnson , while he was at Pem- broke College , ' was caressed and loved by all about him , was ...
... Italy . I'll go to Padua . — And I'll mind my business . For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads . ' Dr. Adams told me that Johnson , while he was at Pem- broke College , ' was caressed and loved by all about him , was ...
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... Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That part of his labour which consisted in emendation and im- 1738 ] REPORTS OF THE DEBATES 29 provement of the 28 [ 1738 ...
... Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That part of his labour which consisted in emendation and im- 1738 ] REPORTS OF THE DEBATES 29 provement of the 28 [ 1738 ...
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... Italy he met with it in Devonshire , knowing nothing of its authour , and began to read it while he was standing with his arm leaning against a chimney- piece . It seized his attention so strongly , that , not being able to lay down the ...
... Italy he met with it in Devonshire , knowing nothing of its authour , and began to read it while he was standing with his arm leaning against a chimney- piece . It seized his attention so strongly , that , not being able to lay down the ...
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... was , I think , not very happy in the choice of his title , The Rambler , which certainly is not suited to a series of grave and moral discourses ; which 1750 ] THE RAMBLER 47 the Italians have literally , 46 [ 1750 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON.
... was , I think , not very happy in the choice of his title , The Rambler , which certainly is not suited to a series of grave and moral discourses ; which 1750 ] THE RAMBLER 47 the Italians have literally , 46 [ 1750 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON.
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James Boswell Charles Grosvenor Osgood. 1750 ] THE RAMBLER 47 the Italians have literally , but ludicrously translated by Il Vagabondo ; and which has been lately assumed as the denomination of a vehicle of licentious tales , The ...
James Boswell Charles Grosvenor Osgood. 1750 ] THE RAMBLER 47 the Italians have literally , but ludicrously translated by Il Vagabondo ; and which has been lately assumed as the denomination of a vehicle of licentious tales , The ...
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