Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Thomas Y. Crowell, 1892 - 526 strani |
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Stran 253
... merit ought to make the only distinction amongst mankind : JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , mankind have found that this cannot be . How shall we determine the proportion of intrinsic merit ? Were that to be the only distinction . amongst ...
... merit ought to make the only distinction amongst mankind : JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , mankind have found that this cannot be . How shall we determine the proportion of intrinsic merit ? Were that to be the only distinction . amongst ...
Stran 286
... merit but that of producing his Preface , in which the excellences and defects of that immortal bard are displayed with a masterly hand , the nation would have had no reason to complain . A blind in- discriminate admiration of ...
... merit but that of producing his Preface , in which the excellences and defects of that immortal bard are displayed with a masterly hand , the nation would have had no reason to complain . A blind in- discriminate admiration of ...
Stran 340
... merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill . No , Sir , there is no real criticism in it : none showing the beauty of thought , as formed on the workings of the human heart ...
... merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill . No , Sir , there is no real criticism in it : none showing the beauty of thought , as formed on the workings of the human heart ...
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acquaintance admiration afterwards answer appeared asked Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON Bishop bookseller called character church compliments consider conversation Croker David Garrick DEAR SIR death Dictionary dined doubt edition eminent England English Essay favor Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy heard Hebrides honor hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind King lady Langton language Latin learned letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Bute Lord Chesterfield Lord Hailes Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion opinion Oxford Pembroke College perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet praise published Rambler reason remarkable Samuel Johnson Scotch Scotland Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds suppose sure talked tell things THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told translation truth verses Warton wish write written wrote