Boswell's Life of Johnson ...H. Frowde, 1904 |
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... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long ...
... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long ...
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... attention of the Publick to the Performance of Comus , which was next day to be acted at Drury - Lane Playhouse for the Benefit of Milton's Granddaughter . acknowl . Preface and Postscript to Lauder's Pamphlet intitled , ' An Essay on ...
... attention of the Publick to the Performance of Comus , which was next day to be acted at Drury - Lane Playhouse for the Benefit of Milton's Granddaughter . acknowl . Preface and Postscript to Lauder's Pamphlet intitled , ' An Essay on ...
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... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty en- quirer considers only as topicks of ridicule : Yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so ...
... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satisfaction , and the more scrupulous or witty en- quirer considers only as topicks of ridicule : Yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so ...
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... attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellencies of composition ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects , may not grow weary . ' He communicated to me the following particulars ...
... attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellencies of composition ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects , may not grow weary . ' He communicated to me the following particulars ...
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... attention steadily upon something without , and prevented his mind from preying upon itself . Thus I find in his hand- writing the number of lines in each of two of Euripides ' Tragedies , of the Georgicks of Virgil , of the first six ...
... attention steadily upon something without , and prevented his mind from preying upon itself . Thus I find in his hand- writing the number of lines in each of two of Euripides ' Tragedies , of the Georgicks of Virgil , of the first six ...
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BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON, Količina 3 James 1740-1795 Boswell,George Birkbeck Norman 1835-1903 Hill Predogled ni na voljo - 2016 |
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