Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 1Times Book Club, 1912 |
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... literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind of writing . Since my work was announced several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the ...
... literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind of writing . Since my work was announced several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the ...
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... literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never could have lived together with com- panionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to ...
... literary history ; but from the rigid formality of his manners , it is evident that they never could have lived together with com- panionable ease and familiarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to ...
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... literary history.1 ' Nov. 24 , 1737. ' Instead of melting down my materials into one mass , and constantly speaking in my own person , by which I might have appeared to have more merit in the execution of the work , I have resolved to ...
... literary history.1 ' Nov. 24 , 1737. ' Instead of melting down my materials into one mass , and constantly speaking in my own person , by which I might have appeared to have more merit in the execution of the work , I have resolved to ...
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... 20th March 1776 . 8 It ought to be remembered , that Dr. Johnson was apt , in his literary as well as moral exercises , to overcharge his defects . Dr. The 5th of November was at that time kept with 34 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON [ 1728.
... 20th March 1776 . 8 It ought to be remembered , that Dr. Johnson was apt , in his literary as well as moral exercises , to overcharge his defects . Dr. The 5th of November was at that time kept with 34 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON [ 1728.
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... 1 Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of Dr. Johnson , by John Courtenay , Esq . , M.P. The ' morbid melancholy ' which was lurking in his 36 [ 1729 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON at Oxford in 1731. In that Miscellany Johnson's ...
... 1 Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of Dr. Johnson , by John Courtenay , Esq . , M.P. The ' morbid melancholy ' which was lurking in his 36 [ 1729 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON at Oxford in 1731. In that Miscellany Johnson's ...
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