Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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... perhaps a friendship , while he , though ever busy and solicitous , withdraws into the background . Some think that Boswell , in his Life of Johnson , did not sufficiently realize his duty of self - effacement . He is too much in ...
... perhaps a friendship , while he , though ever busy and solicitous , withdraws into the background . Some think that Boswell , in his Life of Johnson , did not sufficiently realize his duty of self - effacement . He is too much in ...
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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 . SAMUEL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield , in ...
... 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 . SAMUEL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield , in ...
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... perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion , after I became capable of rational inquiry . ' From this time forward religion was the ...
... perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion , after I became capable of rational inquiry . ' From this time forward religion was the ...
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... perhaps , no small disappointment to Johnson that this respectable application had not the desired effect ; yet how much reason has there been , both for himself and his country , to rejoice that it did not succeed , as he might prob ...
... perhaps , no small disappointment to Johnson that this respectable application had not the desired effect ; yet how much reason has there been , both for himself and his country , to rejoice that it did not succeed , as he might prob ...
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... perhaps in every thing of any consequence , a secret history which it would be amusing to know , could we have it authen- tically communicated . Johnson told me , ' Sir , the way in which the Plan of my Dictionary came to be inscribed ...
... perhaps in every thing of any consequence , a secret history which it would be amusing to know , could we have it authen- tically communicated . Johnson told me , ' Sir , the way in which the Plan of my Dictionary came to be inscribed ...
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acquaintance admiration Æneid ÆTAT afterwards agreeable answered appeared Ashbourne asked authour Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON better bookseller BOSWELL Burke Burney called character compliment conversation David Garrick dear Sir death Dictionary dined dinner drink eminent entertained favour Francis Barber Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King lady Langton laugh Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter Madam manner mentioned merit mind morning never night obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College pleased pleasure Poets pounds praise publick recollect Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson Scotland seemed servant shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds smiling soon Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told topicks truth Whig Wilkes wine wish wonder write written wrote young