Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 3Harper, 1904 |
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Stran 4
... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the contrary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
... never querulous , never prone to inveigh against the present times , as is so common when superficial minds are on the fret . On the contrary , he was willing to speak favourably of his own age ; and , indeed , maintained its ...
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... never happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , —or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise ' ? ' JOHNSON . ' No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . ' ' Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale ...
... never happy for the present , but when he is drunk . Will you not add , —or when driving rapidly in a post - chaise ' ? ' JOHNSON . ' No , Sir , you are driving rapidly from something , or to something . ' ' Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale ...
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... never long without a dawn of ease . But they who restrain themselves from receiving comfort do as the savages would have done , had they put out their eyes when it was dark . ' Rasselas , ch . 35. Keep yourself busy , ' wrote Johnson to ...
... never long without a dawn of ease . But they who restrain themselves from receiving comfort do as the savages would have done , had they put out their eyes when it was dark . ' Rasselas , ch . 35. Keep yourself busy , ' wrote Johnson to ...
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... never greedy of money , but without money could not be stimulated to write . I have been told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ( sic ) to preach on a particular occasion , he applied to him for help ...
... never greedy of money , but without money could not be stimulated to write . I have been told by a clergyman with whom he had been long acquainted , that , being ( sic ) to preach on a particular occasion , he applied to him for help ...
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... never put his name to anything . He shewed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved por- trait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the ...
... never put his name to anything . He shewed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved por- trait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the ...
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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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admirable Aetat afterwards Anec April April 15 April 28 Ashbourne asked authour Baretti Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers Boswell's Hebrides Burke Burney called character conversation Croker DEAR SIR death dined dinner Dodd doubt drink edition England English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard honour hope Horace Walpole humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson wrote lady Langton learning Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo Madam Malone March 20 Memoirs mentioned mind never observed once opinion Percy perhaps Piozzi Letters pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope praise publick published Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON says Scotland Sept sermon shew Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talk Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told truth Whig Wilkes wine wish words write written