Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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Stran 103
... desire is to see Lichfield ; but being left executor to my friend , I know not whether this week , as it never happened in Passion - week before , that I have never dined at home , and I have therefore neither practised absti- nence nor ...
... desire is to see Lichfield ; but being left executor to my friend , I know not whether this week , as it never happened in Passion - week before , that I have never dined at home , and I have therefore neither practised absti- nence nor ...
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... desires to see that of which he has read ; but no man desires to read an account of what he has seen so much does description fall short of reality . Description only excites curiosity : seeing satisfies it . Other people may go and see ...
... desires to see that of which he has read ; but no man desires to read an account of what he has seen so much does description fall short of reality . Description only excites curiosity : seeing satisfies it . Other people may go and see ...
Stran 472
... desire , no more than the Litany was read ; in which his responses were in the deep and sonorous voice which Mr. Boswell has occasionally noticed , and with the most profound devotion that can be imagined . His hear- ing not being quite ...
... desire , no more than the Litany was read ; in which his responses were in the deep and sonorous voice which Mr. Boswell has occasionally noticed , and with the most profound devotion that can be imagined . His hear- ing not being quite ...
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