Boswell's Life of JohnsonScribner's Sons, 1917 - 574 strani |
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Stran viii
... write them in final form , that none of the freshness and glow might fade . The sheer labor of this process , not to mention the difficulty , can be measured only by one who attempts a similar feat . Let him try to report the best ...
... write them in final form , that none of the freshness and glow might fade . The sheer labor of this process , not to mention the difficulty , can be measured only by one who attempts a similar feat . Let him try to report the best ...
Stran x
... writer beyond resistance . ' I observed to him , ' said Boswell , ' that there were very few of his friends so accurate as that I could venture to put down in writing what they told me as his sayings . ' The faithfulness of his portrait ...
... writer beyond resistance . ' I observed to him , ' said Boswell , ' that there were very few of his friends so accurate as that I could venture to put down in writing what they told me as his sayings . ' The faithfulness of his portrait ...
Stran 1
... writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had persevering diligence enough to form them into a regular composition . Of these memorials a few have been preserved ; but the greater part was consigned by ...
... writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortunes , he never had persevering diligence enough to form them into a regular composition . Of these memorials a few have been preserved ; but the greater part was consigned by ...
Stran 2
... writing . Instead of melting down my materials into one mass , and constantly speaking in my own person , by which I ... write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not ...
... writing . Instead of melting down my materials into one mass , and constantly speaking in my own person , by which I ... write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not ...
Stran 17
... write his first exercise at College twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other com- position ; and we shall see that his most excellent works were struck off at a heat , with rapid exertion . No man had a more ardent ...
... write his first exercise at College twice over ; but he never took that trouble with any other com- position ; and we shall see that his most excellent works were struck off at a heat , with rapid exertion . No man had a more ardent ...
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