Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1A. Constable and Company, 1903 |
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... performance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers , but imagine themselves writing a life , when they exhibit a chronological series of actions or preferments ; and have so little regard to ...
... performance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers , but imagine themselves writing a life , when they exhibit a chronological series of actions or preferments ; and have so little regard to ...
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... performances concur to prove that great cities in every age and in every country will furnish similar topics of satire . Whether Johnson had previously read Oldham's imitation I do not know ; but it is not a little remarkable that there ...
... performances concur to prove that great cities in every age and in every country will furnish similar topics of satire . Whether Johnson had previously read Oldham's imitation I do not know ; but it is not a little remarkable that there ...
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... performance ( if any beauty be allowed it ) consisting in adapt- ing Juvenal's sentiments to modern facts and persons . It will , with those additions , very conveniently make five sheets . And since the expense will be no more , I ...
... performance ( if any beauty be allowed it ) consisting in adapt- ing Juvenal's sentiments to modern facts and persons . It will , with those additions , very conveniently make five sheets . And since the expense will be no more , I ...
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