Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Dodge Publishing Company, 1896 - 6 strani |
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Stran xiii
... genius for portraiture , coupled with that infinite capacity for taking pains which is found allied to genius so often that it has sometimes been mistaken for it . That Boswell loved Johnson is plain enough , but that he loved himself ...
... genius for portraiture , coupled with that infinite capacity for taking pains which is found allied to genius so often that it has sometimes been mistaken for it . That Boswell loved Johnson is plain enough , but that he loved himself ...
Stran 187
... genius and literature , ' to advance the honour , and distinguish the beauties of Paradise Lost , ' he says : ' Among the inquiries to which this ardour of criticism has naturally given occasion , none is more obscure in itself , or ...
... genius and literature , ' to advance the honour , and distinguish the beauties of Paradise Lost , ' he says : ' Among the inquiries to which this ardour of criticism has naturally given occasion , none is more obscure in itself , or ...
Stran 256
... genius , compensated that defect by a ready application of his powers to the promotion of piety . The attempt to employ the orna- ments of romance in the decoration of religion , was , I think , first made by Mr. Boyle's Martyrdom of ...
... genius , compensated that defect by a ready application of his powers to the promotion of piety . The attempt to employ the orna- ments of romance in the decoration of religion , was , I think , first made by Mr. Boyle's Martyrdom of ...
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acquainted Adams admiration afterwards appears Beauclerk believe bookseller Boswell Boswell's Cave character College conversation copy David Garrick dear sir DEAR SIR,-I death delighted Dictionary Dodsley edition Edward Cave elegant eminent English essays excellent favour Garrick genius Gentleman's Magazine happy Hector honour hope house of Stuart humble servant imagination imitation Joseph Warton kind labour Lady Macclesfield Langton language late Latin learned Lichfield literary literature lived London Lord Chesterfield Lordship Lucy Porter Macclesfield manner master mentioned mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford paper passage Pembroke College person pleased pleasure poem poet Pope praise Preface probably published Rambler remarkable Reverend Richard Savage Robert Dodsley Samuel Johnson satire Savage Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds style suppose THOMAS WARTON thought tion told translation truth verses wife wish write written wrote