Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Dodge Publishing Company, 1896 - 6 strani |
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... character more than the greatest sieges , or the most important battles.'1 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit : " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those ...
... character more than the greatest sieges , or the most important battles.'1 To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit : " The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those ...
Stran 114
... character , such as I should quite reject , and endeavour to do something better towards doing jus- tice to the character . But as I cannot expect to attain my desire in that respect , it would be a great satis- faction , as well as an ...
... character , such as I should quite reject , and endeavour to do something better towards doing jus- tice to the character . But as I cannot expect to attain my desire in that respect , it would be a great satis- faction , as well as an ...
Stran 217
... character as an exhibition of Johnson , Sir David Dalrymple , Lord Hailes , one of the judges , maintained , with some warmth , that it was not intended as a portrait of Johnson , but of a late noble Lord , distinguished for abstruse ...
... character as an exhibition of Johnson , Sir David Dalrymple , Lord Hailes , one of the judges , maintained , with some warmth , that it was not intended as a portrait of Johnson , but of a late noble Lord , distinguished for abstruse ...
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