Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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Stran xiv
... Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , I described Oxford as it was known to Johnson , and I threw light on more than one important passage in the Life . The follow- ing year I edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour to Corsica and his curious ...
... Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , I described Oxford as it was known to Johnson , and I threw light on more than one important passage in the Life . The follow- ing year I edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour to Corsica and his curious ...
Stran xix
... Lord Kames was quite just ' . The ardent advocates of total abstinence will not , I fear , be pleased at finding at the end of my long note on Johnson's wine - drinking that I have been obliged to show that he thought that the gout from ...
... Lord Kames was quite just ' . The ardent advocates of total abstinence will not , I fear , be pleased at finding at the end of my long note on Johnson's wine - drinking that I have been obliged to show that he thought that the gout from ...
Stran xx
... Lord Macaulay's wild and wanton rhetoric , shown how ardent and how elevated was the curiosity with which Johnson's mind was possessed . In another essay I have ex- plained , I do not say justified , his strong feelings towards the ...
... Lord Macaulay's wild and wanton rhetoric , shown how ardent and how elevated was the curiosity with which Johnson's mind was possessed . In another essay I have ex- plained , I do not say justified , his strong feelings towards the ...
Stran xxiv
... Lord Macaulay was foolishness , was altogether hidden from his dull eye . No one surely but a ' blockhead , ' a ' barren rascal ' , ' could with scissors and paste - pot have mangled the biography which of all others is the delight and ...
... Lord Macaulay was foolishness , was altogether hidden from his dull eye . No one surely but a ' blockhead , ' a ' barren rascal ' , ' could with scissors and paste - pot have mangled the biography which of all others is the delight and ...
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... Lord Chancellor [ Thurlow ] told me he had read every word of my Hebridian Journal ; ' he could not help it ; adding , ' could you give a rule how to write a book that a man must read ? I believe Longinus could not ? Letters of Boswell ...
... Lord Chancellor [ Thurlow ] told me he had read every word of my Hebridian Journal ; ' he could not help it ; adding , ' could you give a rule how to write a book that a man must read ? I believe Longinus could not ? Letters of Boswell ...
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