Boswell's Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1904 - 704 strani |
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... truth , how- ever , is , that he was not so well qualified for being a teacher of elements , and a conductor in learning by regular grada- tions , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acqui- sitions had been made by fits and ...
... truth , how- ever , is , that he was not so well qualified for being a teacher of elements , and a conductor in learning by regular grada- tions , as men of inferiour powers of mind . His own acqui- sitions had been made by fits and ...
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... truth is every where confess'd , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D ! ' [ 1738 慢 D 建 E We may easily conceive with what feeling a great mind like his , cramped and galled by narrow circumstances , uttered this last line , which ...
... truth is every where confess'd , SLOW RISES WORTH , BY POVERTY DEPRESS'D ! ' [ 1738 慢 D 建 E We may easily conceive with what feeling a great mind like his , cramped and galled by narrow circumstances , uttered this last line , which ...
Stran 119
... truth . This digression , I trust , will not be censured , as it relates to a matter exceedingly curious , and very intimately con- nected with Johnson , both as a man and an authour . Trusting to Savage's information , Johnson ...
... truth . This digression , I trust , will not be censured , as it relates to a matter exceedingly curious , and very intimately con- nected with Johnson , both as a man and an authour . Trusting to Savage's information , Johnson ...
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... Truth , he dares to trust ; Ye fops be silent , and ye wits be just ! ' Aaron Hill ( vol . ii . p . 355 ) , in a letter to Mr. Mallett , gives the follow- ing account of Irene after having seen it : ' I was at the anomalous Mr. 134 ...
... Truth , he dares to trust ; Ye fops be silent , and ye wits be just ! ' Aaron Hill ( vol . ii . p . 355 ) , in a letter to Mr. Mallett , gives the follow- ing account of Irene after having seen it : ' I was at the anomalous Mr. 134 ...
Stran 136
... truth of a remark of his , which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere , that ' a man may write at any time , if he will set himself doggedly to it ; for , notwithstanding his constitutional indolence , his depression of spirits , and ...
... truth of a remark of his , which I have had occasion to quote elsewhere , that ' a man may write at any time , if he will set himself doggedly to it ; for , notwithstanding his constitutional indolence , his depression of spirits , and ...
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