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
... genius was to place him at the very head of all the biographers of whom the world can boast . My hopes were increased by the elegance and the accuracy of the typography with which my pub- lishers , Messrs . De La Rue & Co. , adorned ...
... genius was to place him at the very head of all the biographers of whom the world can boast . My hopes were increased by the elegance and the accuracy of the typography with which my pub- lishers , Messrs . De La Rue & Co. , adorned ...
Stran xxiv
... genius , a genius which even to 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 ...
... genius , a genius which even to 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 ...
Stran xxv
... genius of an author who , in addition to other great qualities , has an admirable eye for the just proportions of an extensive work , and who is the master of a style that is as easy as it is inimitable . Johnson , I fondly believe ...
... genius of an author who , in addition to other great qualities , has an admirable eye for the just proportions of an extensive work , and who is the master of a style that is as easy as it is inimitable . Johnson , I fondly believe ...
Stran xxvi
... genius of his biographer would have highly de- lighted him . To his own college he was so deeply attached that he would not have been displeased to learn that his editor had been nursed in that once famous ' nest of sing- ing birds ...
... genius of his biographer would have highly de- lighted him . To his own college he was so deeply attached that he would not have been displeased to learn that his editor had been nursed in that once famous ' nest of sing- ing birds ...
Stran 8
... genius . ' Gibbon's Misc . Works , i . 213 . The revision of my Life of Johnson , by so acute and knowing a critic as Mr. Malone , is of most essential consequence , especially as he is Johnsonianissimus ! Letters of Boswell , p . 310 ...
... genius . ' Gibbon's Misc . Works , i . 213 . The revision of my Life of Johnson , by so acute and knowing a critic as Mr. Malone , is of most essential consequence , especially as he is Johnsonianissimus ! Letters of Boswell , p . 310 ...
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