Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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... pleased none the less for perceiving its real value . But the most important of his friendships developed between him and such men of genius as Boswell , David Garrick , Oliver Goldsmith , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and Edmund Burke ...
... pleased none the less for perceiving its real value . But the most important of his friendships developed between him and such men of genius as Boswell , David Garrick , Oliver Goldsmith , Sir Joshua Reynolds , and Edmund Burke ...
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... pleased with Johnson's design to employ his talents in that manner , being confident he would have attained to great eminence . As Mr. Pope's note concerning Johnson , alluded to in a former page , refers both to his London , and his ...
... pleased with Johnson's design to employ his talents in that manner , being confident he would have attained to great eminence . As Mr. Pope's note concerning Johnson , alluded to in a former page , refers both to his London , and his ...
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... pleased with another anecdote , communicated to me by the same friend , from the relation of Mr. Hogarth . Johnson used to be a pretty frequent visitor at the house of Mr. Richardson , authour of Clarissa , and other novels of extensive ...
... pleased with another anecdote , communicated to me by the same friend , from the relation of Mr. Hogarth . Johnson used to be a pretty frequent visitor at the house of Mr. Richardson , authour of Clarissa , and other novels of extensive ...
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... pleased , embody and render per- manent without much labour . Some of them , however , he observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign ...
... pleased , embody and render per- manent without much labour . Some of them , however , he observed were too gross for imitation . The profits of a single poem , however excellent , appear to have been very small in the last reign ...
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... pleased with the mind , the fair view of human nature , which it exhibited , like some of the reflections of Rochefaucault . The consequence was , that he went home with Reynolds , and supped with him . Sir Joshua told me a pleasant ...
... pleased with the mind , the fair view of human nature , which it exhibited , like some of the reflections of Rochefaucault . The consequence was , that he went home with Reynolds , and supped with him . Sir Joshua told me a pleasant ...
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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