Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4A. Constable and Company, 1896 |
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Stran 41
... talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an author ; observing that he was thirty years in pre- paring his History , and that he employed a man to point it for him ; as if ( laughing ) another man could point his sense better than ...
... talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an author ; observing that he was thirty years in pre- paring his History , and that he employed a man to point it for him ; as if ( laughing ) another man could point his sense better than ...
Stran 84
... talked with all imaginable freedom of the ludicrous title given to the Attorney - General , Diabolus Regis ; adding , ' I have reason to know something about that officer ; for I was prosecuted for a libel . ' Johnson , who many people ...
... talked with all imaginable freedom of the ludicrous title given to the Attorney - General , Diabolus Regis ; adding , ' I have reason to know something about that officer ; for I was prosecuted for a libel . ' Johnson , who many people ...
Stran 182
... talked of employment being absolutely neces- sary to preserve the mind from wearing and growing fretful , especially in those who have a tendency to melancholy ; and I mentioned to him a saying which somebody had related of an American ...
... talked of employment being absolutely neces- sary to preserve the mind from wearing and growing fretful , especially in those who have a tendency to melancholy ; and I mentioned to him a saying which somebody had related of an American ...
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