Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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Stran xvii
... play the game ? How did they fight the fight that I am to fight , and how in any case did they lose or win ? To these questions biography gives the direct answer . Such is its importance over other literature . For such reasons ...
... play the game ? How did they fight the fight that I am to fight , and how in any case did they lose or win ? To these questions biography gives the direct answer . Such is its importance over other literature . For such reasons ...
Stran 35
... played such a power of eloquence , that Hogarth looked at him with astonishment , and actually imagined that this ideot had been at the moment inspired . Neither Hogarth nor Johnson were made known to each other at this interview . 1740 ...
... played such a power of eloquence , that Hogarth looked at him with astonishment , and actually imagined that this ideot had been at the moment inspired . Neither Hogarth nor Johnson were made known to each other at this interview . 1740 ...
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... played some little time at Goodman's fields , Johnson and Taylor went to see him perform , and afterwards passed the evening at a tavern with him and old Giffard . Johnson , who was ever depreciating stage - players , after censuring ...
... played some little time at Goodman's fields , Johnson and Taylor went to see him perform , and afterwards passed the evening at a tavern with him and old Giffard . Johnson , who was ever depreciating stage - players , after censuring ...
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... play now has it . The Epilogue , as Johnson informed me , was written by Sir William Yonge . I know not how his play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so emi- nent in the political world . Notwithstanding all the ...
... play now has it . The Epilogue , as Johnson informed me , was written by Sir William Yonge . I know not how his play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so emi- nent in the political world . Notwithstanding all the ...
Stran 46
... play was in rehearsal , and during its performance , brought him acquainted with many of the performers of both sexes , which produced a more favourable opinion of their profession than he had harshly expressed in his Life of Savage ...
... play was in rehearsal , and during its performance , brought him acquainted with many of the performers of both sexes , which produced a more favourable opinion of their profession than he had harshly expressed in his Life of Savage ...
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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