Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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... days and years of growing enlightenment and happy companionship , and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life . PRINCETON , June 28 , 1917 . A INTRODUCTION Phillips Brooks once told the boys at Exeter.
... days and years of growing enlightenment and happy companionship , and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life . PRINCETON , June 28 , 1917 . A INTRODUCTION Phillips Brooks once told the boys at Exeter.
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... told me as his sayings . ' The faithfulness of his portrait , even to the mi- nutest details , is his unremitting care , and he subjects all contributed material to the sternest criticism . Industry and love of truth alone will not make ...
... told me as his sayings . ' The faithfulness of his portrait , even to the mi- nutest details , is his unremitting care , and he subjects all contributed material to the sternest criticism . Industry and love of truth alone will not make ...
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... those early impres- sions of religion upon the mind of her son , from which the world afterwards derived so much benefit . He told me , that 1709 ] ANECDOTES 5 he remembered distinctly having had the 4 [ 1709 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON.
... those early impres- sions of religion upon the mind of her son , from which the world afterwards derived so much benefit . He told me , that 1709 ] ANECDOTES 5 he remembered distinctly having had the 4 [ 1709 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON.
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... told , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his mother the follow- ing epitaph : ' Here lies good master duck ...
... told , that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his mother the follow- ing epitaph : ' Here lies good master duck ...
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... told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a bible in that character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a ...
... told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a bible in that character . When he was going to Oxford , she came to take leave of him , brought him , in the simplicity of her kindness , a ...
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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