Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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... thing energic , expansive , propulsive from mind to mind , perennial , yet steady and controlled ; and it was with such force that Johnson's almost superhuman personality in- spired the art of his friends . Of this they were in some de ...
... thing energic , expansive , propulsive from mind to mind , perennial , yet steady and controlled ; and it was with such force that Johnson's almost superhuman personality in- spired the art of his friends . Of this they were in some de ...
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... thing , however slight , which my illustrious friend thought it worth his while to express , with any degree of point , should perish . Of one thing I am certain , that considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table ...
... thing , however slight , which my illustrious friend thought it worth his while to express , with any degree of point , should perish . Of one thing I am certain , that considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table ...
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... thing equal to this . ' Distant praise , from whatever quarter , is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and esteems . Her approbation may be said to ' come home to his bosom ; ' and being so near , its effect is most ...
... thing equal to this . ' Distant praise , from whatever quarter , is not so delightful as that of a wife whom a man loves and esteems . Her approbation may be said to ' come home to his bosom ; ' and being so near , its effect is most ...
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... what you said , but from seeing your intention . ' At another time applying to him , with a slight alteration , a line of Pope , he said , ' Thy love of folly , and thy scorn of fools- Every thing thou dost shews the one , and every.
... what you said , but from seeing your intention . ' At another time applying to him , with a slight alteration , a line of Pope , he said , ' Thy love of folly , and thy scorn of fools- Every thing thou dost shews the one , and every.
Stran 60
James Boswell Charles Grosvenor Osgood. Every thing thou dost shews the one , and every thing thou say'st the other . ' At another time he said to him , ' Thy body is all vice , and thy mind all virtue . ' Beauclerk not seeming to relish ...
James Boswell Charles Grosvenor Osgood. Every thing thou dost shews the one , and every thing thou say'st the other . ' At another time he said to him , ' Thy body is all vice , and thy mind all virtue . ' Beauclerk not seeming to relish ...
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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