Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, 4. kötetHarper, 1891 |
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... anecdote of Richardson . One day at his country - house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr. Richardson , mentioned to him a very flattering ...
... anecdote of Richardson . One day at his country - house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr. Richardson , mentioned to him a very flattering ...
35. oldal
... anecdote : " Green and Guthrie ' , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English , and Guth- rie of Green , that he knew no French ; and these two ...
... anecdote : " Green and Guthrie ' , an Irishman and a Scotch- man , undertook a translation of Duhalde's History of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English , and Guth- rie of Green , that he knew no French ; and these two ...
44. oldal
... anecdotes and quotations ; and I observe the fair hand of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . But he was princi- pally indebted to my steady friend Mr. Isaac Reed , of Sta- ple - inn , whose extensive and accurate ...
... anecdotes and quotations ; and I observe the fair hand of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . But he was princi- pally indebted to my steady friend Mr. Isaac Reed , of Sta- ple - inn , whose extensive and accurate ...
59. oldal
... anecdotes , with a quiet pleasant gravity , that was exceedingly engaging . Never shall I forget the hours which I en- joyed with him at his apartments in the Royal Palace of Holy - Rood House , and at his seat near Edinburgh , which he ...
... anecdotes , with a quiet pleasant gravity , that was exceedingly engaging . Never shall I forget the hours which I en- joyed with him at his apartments in the Royal Palace of Holy - Rood House , and at his seat near Edinburgh , which he ...
62. oldal
... anecdote is denied . But Mr. Malone has obliged me with the follow- ing note concerning it : — ' Many persons having doubts concerning this fact , I applied to Dr. Johnson to learn on what authority he asserted it . He told me , he had ...
... anecdote is denied . But Mr. Malone has obliged me with the follow- ing note concerning it : — ' Many persons having doubts concerning this fact , I applied to Dr. Johnson to learn on what authority he asserted it . He told me , he had ...
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