Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1. kötetTimes Book Club, 1912 |
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xxi. oldal
... expect . Nor must this be forgotten -- Boswell's Johnson is the post - pension Johnson . Never before nor since did a beggarly £ 300 a year of public money yield ( thanks mainly to Boswell ) such a harvest for the public good . Not only ...
... expect . Nor must this be forgotten -- Boswell's Johnson is the post - pension Johnson . Never before nor since did a beggarly £ 300 a year of public money yield ( thanks mainly to Boswell ) such a harvest for the public good . Not only ...
8. oldal
... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living ...
... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living ...
10. oldal
... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living ...
... expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living ...
19. oldal
... candlestick , which the boy could not expect to be asked . Now , sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . ' It is , however , but justice to the memory LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 19.
... candlestick , which the boy could not expect to be asked . Now , sir , if a boy could answer every question , there would be no need of a master to teach him . ' It is , however , but justice to the memory LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON 19.
41. oldal
... expecting to find it a dull book ( as such books generally are ) , and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me , and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of ...
... expecting to find it a dull book ( as such books generally are ) , and perhaps to laugh at it . But I found Law quite an overmatch for me , and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion after I became capable of ...
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