Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1. kötetOxford University Press, H. Milford, 1924 - 1384 oldal |
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... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
... wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more shaded ; but it is useful to see the weaknesses incident to great minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's ...
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... wish no other herald , ' No other speaker of my living actions , To keep mine honour from corruption , ' But such an honest chronicler as Griffith ' . ' SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . [ Act IV . Sc . 2. ] 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs ...
... wish no other herald , ' No other speaker of my living actions , To keep mine honour from corruption , ' But such an honest chronicler as Griffith ' . ' SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . [ Act IV . Sc . 2. ] 1 See Dr. Johnson's letter to Mrs ...
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... wish for an answer . I am , Sir , your humble servant , ' SIR , ' TO MR . CAVE . ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' [ No date . ] ' I am pretty much of your opinion , that the Commen- tary cannot be prosecuted with any appearance of success ; for as ...
... wish for an answer . I am , Sir , your humble servant , ' SIR , ' TO MR . CAVE . ' SAM . JOHNSON . ' [ No date . ] ' I am pretty much of your opinion , that the Commen- tary cannot be prosecuted with any appearance of success ; for as ...
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... Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
... Wishes has less of common life , but more of a philosophick dignity than his London . More readers , therefore , will be delighted with the pointed spirit of London , than with the profound reflection of The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
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... wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid , and he never stag- nates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain ...
... wish to be energetick ; he is never rapid , and he never stag- nates . His sentences have neither studied amplitude , nor affected brevity : his periods , though not diligently rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain ...
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