Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Thomas Y. Crowell, 1892 - 526 strani |
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... once observed to me that , " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book , without submitting to the labor of perusing it from beginning to end . He had ...
... once observed to me that , " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . " He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book , without submitting to the labor of perusing it from beginning to end . He had ...
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... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation , and totally concentrated in one object ...
... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licentious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation , and totally concentrated in one object ...
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... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
... once . But such arts as these have no merit , unless when they are original . We admire them only once ; and this abruptness has nothing new in it . We have had it often before . Nay , we have it in the old song of Johnny Armstrong ...
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