Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1. kötetA. Constable and Company, 1903 |
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... doubt the authenticity of this account by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lichfield : — ' I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boyish days ...
... doubt the authenticity of this account by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lichfield : — ' I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was enamoured of her in his boyish days ...
118. oldal
... doubt that he wrote the little abridgment entitled ' Foreign History ' in the Magazine for December . To prove it , I shall quote the Introduction : ́As this is that season of the year in which Nature may be said to command a suspension ...
... doubt that he wrote the little abridgment entitled ' Foreign History ' in the Magazine for December . To prove it , I shall quote the Introduction : ́As this is that season of the year in which Nature may be said to command a suspension ...
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... doubt that I can do it in three years . Adams : But the French Academy , which consists of forty members , took forty years to compile their dictionary . Johnson : Sir , thus it is . This is the proportion . Let me see ; forty times ...
... doubt that I can do it in three years . Adams : But the French Academy , which consists of forty members , took forty years to compile their dictionary . Johnson : Sir , thus it is . This is the proportion . Let me see ; forty times ...
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