Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776-1780; v.4, 1780-1784)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... heard him express great disgust . 1 See ante , March 15 , 1776 . loon , a scoundrel ; lout , a scoundrel ; Anecdotes of Johnson , p . 176. poltroon , a scoundrel ; and that he BOSWELL . ' It is , ' he said , ' so very difficult for a ...
... heard him express great disgust . 1 See ante , March 15 , 1776 . loon , a scoundrel ; lout , a scoundrel ; Anecdotes of Johnson , p . 176. poltroon , a scoundrel ; and that he BOSWELL . ' It is , ' he said , ' so very difficult for a ...
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... heard to - day , in his determination to send his own son to Westminster school ' .— I have acted in the same manner with regard to my own two sons ; having placed the eldest at Eton , and the second at Westminster . I cannot say which ...
... heard to - day , in his determination to send his own son to Westminster school ' .— I have acted in the same manner with regard to my own two sons ; having placed the eldest at Eton , and the second at Westminster . I cannot say which ...
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... heard him talk once before in the same manner ; and at Oxford he said , ' he wished he had learnt to play at cards . The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and therefore would sometimes in ...
... heard him talk once before in the same manner ; and at Oxford he said , ' he wished he had learnt to play at cards . The truth , however , is , that he loved to display his ingenuity in argument ; and therefore would sometimes in ...
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... heard Johnson pay his Lordship this high compliment : ' I never was in Lord Elibank's company without learning some- thing . ' We sat together till it was too late for the afternoon service . Thrale said he had come with intention to go ...
... heard Johnson pay his Lordship this high compliment : ' I never was in Lord Elibank's company without learning some- thing . ' We sat together till it was too late for the afternoon service . Thrale said he had come with intention to go ...
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... heard Johnson repeat : it stamps a value on them . He told us , that the book entitled The Lives of the Poets , by Mr. Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotch- man , one of his amanuenses . The bookseller ( said he ...
... heard Johnson repeat : it stamps a value on them . He told us , that the book entitled The Lives of the Poets , by Mr. Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotch- man , one of his amanuenses . The bookseller ( said he ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Together with Boswell's Journal of a ..., Količina 3 James Boswell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1934 |
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