Boswell's Life of Johnson (abridged)Houghton Mifflin, 1917 - 228 oldal |
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... occasion , 2 Boswell tells us , Johnson , finding that courtesy failed , picked up the gentleman who had usurped his seat at the theater and tossed him and the chair in which he sat into the pit below . One thinks of the grim humor of ...
... occasion , 2 Boswell tells us , Johnson , finding that courtesy failed , picked up the gentleman who had usurped his seat at the theater and tossed him and the chair in which he sat into the pit below . One thinks of the grim humor of ...
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... occasion- ally he showed some traces of uncouth manner and tem- peramental blemish . Disgusting he probably was in his table manners gorging ravenously with flushed face and swelling veins ; but he could be a stickler for good form . It ...
... occasion- ally he showed some traces of uncouth manner and tem- peramental blemish . Disgusting he probably was in his table manners gorging ravenously with flushed face and swelling veins ; but he could be a stickler for good form . It ...
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... occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may some- times be disappointed of its gratifications . I am , my dear Sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL ...
... occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may some- times be disappointed of its gratifications . I am , my dear Sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL ...
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... occasion , 2 have been received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if ...
... occasion , 2 have been received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a celebrated man , if ...
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... occasions of my detail of John- son's conversation , and how happily it is adapted for the petty exercise of ridicule , by men of superficial understand- ing and ludicrous fancy ; but I remain firm and confident in my opinion , that ...
... occasions of my detail of John- son's conversation , and how happily it is adapted for the petty exercise of ridicule , by men of superficial understand- ing and ludicrous fancy ; but I remain firm and confident in my opinion , that ...
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acquaintance admiration ÆTAT afterwards answered appeared asked Beauclerk BENNET LANGTON Bishop booksellers Boswell Boswell's Burke Burney celebrated character Cibber conversation David Garrick dear Sir death Dictionary Dilly dined dinner Dodsley drink Edwards eminent favour Francis Barber Garrick gave gentleman give Goldsmith happy heard Hebrides honour hope humour imagination JAMES BOSWELL kind King knew labour lady Langton language letter Lichfield Literary Club literature lived London Lord Chesterfield Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind nature never observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College Percy pleased pleasure poet Pope publick recollect respect Richardson Robert Dodsley SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seemed servant shewed Sir John Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds spirit strong supposed talk tell thing Thomas Warton thought Thrale tion told topicks truth Wilkes William wine wish wonder write wrote