Boswell's Life of Johnson: Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 557 strani |
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... 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 Biography1 . 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 Biography1 . Over manners too a change has come , and as Johnson justly observes ...
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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 labour of perusing it from beginning to end 1 . 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 labour of perusing it from beginning to end 1 . He had ...
Stran 403
... once 2. 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 3 ...
... once 2. 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 3 ...
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VOLUME I | xxvii |
PREFACE | xxxi |
JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON LL D | 3 |
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