Boswell's Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... known in all the polite circles . Colley Cibber , I am informed , had so high an opinion of her taste and judgement as to genteel life , and manners , that he submitted every scene of his Careless Husband to Mrs. Brett's revisal 120 ...
... known in all the polite circles . Colley Cibber , I am informed , had so high an opinion of her taste and judgement as to genteel life , and manners , that he submitted every scene of his Careless Husband to Mrs. Brett's revisal 120 ...
Stran 153
... known to posterity with honour , is peculiar to the great , or at least to the wealthy ; but an opportunity now offers for almost every individual to secure the praise of paying a just regard to the illustrious dead , united with the ...
... known to posterity with honour , is peculiar to the great , or at least to the wealthy ; but an opportunity now offers for almost every individual to secure the praise of paying a just regard to the illustrious dead , united with the ...
Stran 174
... known , and do not want it . I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obliga- tions where no benefit has been received , or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron , which Providence has ...
... known , and do not want it . I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obliga- tions where no benefit has been received , or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron , which Providence has ...
Stran 202
... known to philo- sophers and seamen for his skill in magnetism , and his proposal to ascer- tain the longitude by a peculiar system of the variation of the compass . He was a man of industry indefatigable , of conversation inoffensive ...
... known to philo- sophers and seamen for his skill in magnetism , and his proposal to ascer- tain the longitude by a peculiar system of the variation of the compass . He was a man of industry indefatigable , of conversation inoffensive ...
Stran 207
... known to the world for his daring defiance of power , when he thought it exerted on the side of wrong , he thus speaks : The Irish ministers drove him from his native country by a proclamation , in which they charged him with crimes of ...
... known to the world for his daring defiance of power , when he thought it exerted on the side of wrong , he thus speaks : The Irish ministers drove him from his native country by a proclamation , in which they charged him with crimes of ...
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