Croker's Boswell and Boswell: Studies in the "Life of Johnson". ...Chapman & Hall, 1880 - 308 oldal |
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157. oldal - Can you write such a letter as this? So miscellaneous with such noble disdain of regularity; like Shakspeare's works, such graceful negligence of transition, like the ancient enthusiasts? The pure voice of nature and of friendship.
196. oldal - Doctor; and of every one else, when in that presence, he was unobservant, if not contemptuous. In truth, when he met with Dr. Johnson, he commonly forbore even answering anything that was said, or attending to any thing that went forward, lest he should miss the smallest sound from that voice to which he paid such exclusive, though merited homage. But the moment that voice burst forth, the attention which it excited in Mr.