Boswell's Life of Johnson ...H. Frowde, 1904 |
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... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
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... wish him joy of his young wife . ' And after sentence of death , in the horrible terms in cases of treason , was pronounced upon him , and he was retiring from the bar , he said , ' Fare you well , my Lords , we shall not all meet again ...
... wish him joy of his young wife . ' And after sentence of death , in the horrible terms in cases of treason , was pronounced upon him , and he was retiring from the bar , he said , ' Fare you well , my Lords , we shall not all meet again ...
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... Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
... Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
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... wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid , and he never stag- nates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain ...
... wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid , and he never stag- nates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain ...
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... wish that he had not ended it with an unnecessary Greek verse , translated also into an English couplet . It is too much like the conceit of those dramatick poets , who used to conclude each act with a rhyme ; and the expression in the ...
... wish that he had not ended it with an unnecessary Greek verse , translated also into an English couplet . It is too much like the conceit of those dramatick poets , who used to conclude each act with a rhyme ; and the expression in the ...
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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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