Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 5 |
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A passage in Home's Douglas , and one in Juvenal , compared . Neglect of religious buildings in Scotland . Arrive at Sir James Colquhoun's . October 27. Dr. Johnson's letter to the Duke of Argyle . His grace's answer . Lochlomond .
A passage in Home's Douglas , and one in Juvenal , compared . Neglect of religious buildings in Scotland . Arrive at Sir James Colquhoun's . October 27. Dr. Johnson's letter to the Duke of Argyle . His grace's answer . Lochlomond .
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Our friend Edmund Burke , who by this time had received some pretty severe strokes from Dr. Johnson , on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks , upon my repeating this passage to him , exclaimed Oil of vitriol !
Our friend Edmund Burke , who by this time had received some pretty severe strokes from Dr. Johnson , on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks , upon my repeating this passage to him , exclaimed Oil of vitriol !
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In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes , there is the following passage : “ The teeming mother , anxious for her race , Begs , for each birth , the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could tell , what ills from beauty spring , And Sedley ...
In Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes , there is the following passage : “ The teeming mother , anxious for her race , Begs , for each birth , the fortune of a face : Yet Vane could tell , what ills from beauty spring , And Sedley ...
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He describes her penitence in a fine passage . Ib . ch . 26 . * Malone , in a note on the Life of Johnson under 1749 , says that ' this lady was not the celebrated Lady Vane , whose memoirs were given to the public by Dr. Smollett [ in ...
He describes her penitence in a fine passage . Ib . ch . 26 . * Malone , in a note on the Life of Johnson under 1749 , says that ' this lady was not the celebrated Lady Vane , whose memoirs were given to the public by Dr. Smollett [ in ...
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He then repeated a passage , I think , in Butler's Remains , which ends , “ and would cry , Fire ! Fire ! in Noah's flood ' . ' We had a dreary drive , in a dusky night , to St. Andrews , where we arrived late .
He then repeated a passage , I think , in Butler's Remains , which ends , “ and would cry , Fire ! Fire ! in Noah's flood ' . ' We had a dreary drive , in a dusky night , to St. Andrews , where we arrived late .
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