Boswell's Life of JohnsonHumphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 |
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... once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , ' they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
... once himself of his being much distinguished at school , he told me , ' they never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said , Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
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... once form'd , all council comes too late , He flies to press , and hurries on his fate ; Swiftly he sees the imagin'd laurels spread , And feels the unfading wreath surround his head . Warn'd by another's fate , vain youth be wise ...
... once form'd , all council comes too late , He flies to press , and hurries on his fate ; Swiftly he sees the imagin'd laurels spread , And feels the unfading wreath surround his head . Warn'd by another's fate , vain youth be wise ...
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... once asked him whether a person , whose name I have now forgotten , studied hard , he answered ' No , Sir ; I do not believe he studied hard . I never knew a man who studied hard . I conclude , in- deed , from the effects , that some ...
... once asked him whether a person , whose name I have now forgotten , studied hard , he answered ' No , Sir ; I do not believe he studied hard . I never knew a man who studied hard . I conclude , in- deed , from the effects , that some ...
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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 . 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 . 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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