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 xiii
... once seemed almost hopelessly broken down . Never- theless even then the time was not wholly lost . In the sleepless hours of many a winter night I almost forgot my miseries in the delightful pages of Horace Walpole's Letters , and with ...
... once seemed almost hopelessly broken down . Never- theless even then the time was not wholly lost . In the sleepless hours of many a winter night I almost forgot my miseries in the delightful pages of Horace Walpole's Letters , and with ...
Stran xv
... once more examined the originals . ' Diligence and accuracy , ' writes Gibbon , ' are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself ; if any merit indeed can be assumed from the performance of an indispensable duty1 ...
... once more examined the originals . ' Diligence and accuracy , ' writes Gibbon , ' are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself ; if any merit indeed can be assumed from the performance of an indispensable duty1 ...
Stran xvi
... once fell upon a familiar and a friendly ear now fall dead . Men whose names were known to every one , now often have not even a line in a Dictionary of Biography . Over manners too a change has come , and as Johnson justly observes ...
... once fell upon a familiar and a friendly ear now fall dead . Men whose names were known to every one , now often have not even a line in a Dictionary of Biography . Over manners too a change has come , and as Johnson justly observes ...
Stran xvii
... Once or twice in the course of my reading I have come upon essays which had escaped the notice of his biographer , but which bear the marks of his workman- ship . To these I have given a reference . While the minute examination that I ...
... Once or twice in the course of my reading I have come upon essays which had escaped the notice of his biographer , but which bear the marks of his workman- ship . To these I have given a reference . While the minute examination that I ...
Stran xxv
... once on the wing , let it not stoop at correction or explanation . When his attention is strongly engaged let it disdain alike to turn aside to the name of Theobald and of Pope . Let him read on through brightness and obscurity ...
... once on the wing , let it not stoop at correction or explanation . When his attention is strongly engaged let it disdain alike to turn aside to the name of Theobald and of Pope . Let him read on through brightness and obscurity ...
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