Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged)Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 228 oldal |
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xii. oldal
... able . For an immense collection of these details and for a complete biographical record we are indebted chiefly to James Boswell . His Life of Johnson and his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are works of almost filial devotion and of ...
... able . For an immense collection of these details and for a complete biographical record we are indebted chiefly to James Boswell . His Life of Johnson and his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are works of almost filial devotion and of ...
xiii. oldal
... able and willing to under- take so great a task . In the course of his friendship with Johnson , Boswell , who was married and had to provide for a family , found time to make many trips to London , and devoted the great part of his ...
... able and willing to under- take so great a task . In the course of his friendship with Johnson , Boswell , who was married and had to provide for a family , found time to make many trips to London , and devoted the great part of his ...
4. oldal
... able to preserve his conversation in an authentick and lively man- ner , which opinion the Publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to persevere in my purpose of pro- ducing the whole of my stores . In one respect ...
... able to preserve his conversation in an authentick and lively man- ner , which opinion the Publick has confirmed , was the best encouragement for me to persevere in my purpose of pro- ducing the whole of my stores . In one respect ...
8. oldal
... able , and certainly makes his narrative very unsatisfactory . But what is still worse , there is throughout the whole of it a dark uncharitable cast , by which the most unfavour- able construction is put upon almost every circumstance ...
... able , and certainly makes his narrative very unsatisfactory . But what is still worse , there is throughout the whole of it a dark uncharitable cast , by which the most unfavour- able construction is put upon almost every circumstance ...
18. oldal
... able performer upon a bad instrument . How false and contemptible then are all the remarks which have been made to the prejudice either of his candour or of his phi- losophy , founded upon a supposition that he was almost blind . It has ...
... able performer upon a bad instrument . How false and contemptible then are all the remarks which have been made to the prejudice either of his candour or of his phi- losophy , founded upon a supposition that he was almost blind . It has ...
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