Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Dodge Publishing Company, 1896 - 6 strani |
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... attention and perceptive quickness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the High- lands of Scotland , and I ...
... attention and perceptive quickness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . When he and I were travelling in the High- lands of Scotland , and I ...
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... attention to external elegance of manners . But it must at the same time be allowed that they contain many good precepts of conduct , and much genuine information upon life and manners , very happily expressed ; and that there was ...
... attention to external elegance of manners . But it must at the same time be allowed that they contain many good precepts of conduct , and much genuine information upon life and manners , very happily expressed ; and that there was ...
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... attention which that learned and elegant writer bestowed on those compositions which he intended for the public eye , is so happily expressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any altera- tion : ' When Johnson came to Oxford ...
... attention which that learned and elegant writer bestowed on those compositions which he intended for the public eye , is so happily expressed in an easy style , that I should injure it by any altera- tion : ' When Johnson came to Oxford ...
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