Boswell's Life of JohnsonScott, Foresman, 1923 - 563 strani |
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Stran 8
... better father , was good to his tenants , wrote one entertaining book besides his life of Johnson , drank too hard , and died in 1795 , at the age of fifty - five . His only claim to distinction is that he was the most ardent and ...
... better father , was good to his tenants , wrote one entertaining book besides his life of Johnson , drank too hard , and died in 1795 , at the age of fifty - five . His only claim to distinction is that he was the most ardent and ...
Stran 11
... better than none , the best cannot be expected to go quite true ; that " definition , " indeed , " is not the province of man . " A lexicographer he whimsically defines in his own dictionary as a " harmless drudge . " And yet with it ...
... better than none , the best cannot be expected to go quite true ; that " definition , " indeed , " is not the province of man . " A lexicographer he whimsically defines in his own dictionary as a " harmless drudge . " And yet with it ...
Stran 12
... better than giving charity and yet when passing a shilling to a beggar and asked why , may respond with sturdy frankness , “ to enable him to beg on . " A man may wax indignant over an attempt to influence Parliament through petitions ...
... better than giving charity and yet when passing a shilling to a beggar and asked why , may respond with sturdy frankness , “ to enable him to beg on . " A man may wax indignant over an attempt to influence Parliament through petitions ...
Stran 15
... better . And he had not much hope for better . He did not begrudge them in their hunger the smell of their ill - ventilated kitchens ; himself , a total abstainer for most of his life , he did not begrudge them their gin . He would not ...
... better . And he had not much hope for better . He did not begrudge them in their hunger the smell of their ill - ventilated kitchens ; himself , a total abstainer for most of his life , he did not begrudge them their gin . He would not ...
Stran 29
... better than the rest , for they gave the waiter nothing . " He at this time , I believe , abstained entirely from fermented liquors ; a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together , at different periods of his life ...
... better than the rest , for they gave the waiter nothing . " He at this time , I believe , abstained entirely from fermented liquors ; a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together , at different periods of his life ...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Together with Boswell's Journal of a ..., Količina 3 James Boswell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1934 |
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acquaintance afterwards appeared April Ashbourne asked Beauclerk believe Bennet Langton better Birkbeck Hill Boswell's Brocklesby called character Chesterfield church consider conversation David Garrick DEAR SIR death Dictionary dined dinner drinking England English Fleet Street Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear Hebrides honor hope Horace Walpole human humor imagination James Boswell John Johnson kind King lady Langton laugh learned liberty Lichfield literary live London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lordship madam mankind manner mentioned mind morning nature never night observed occasion once opinion Pembroke College perhaps Piozzi pleased pleasure poet pounds praise Rambler recollect religion Samuel Johnson Scotch Scotland seemed servant Sir Joshua Reynolds soon Streatham suppose sure talk tell things thought Thrale tion told Topham Beauclerk truth Whig Wilkes William wine wish write wrote young