The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Том 1Derby & Jackson, 1858 |
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... have added drape- ries and backgrounds , but the head and figure are by Mr. Boswell . " Mr. Burke told Sir James Mackintosh , that he thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings X PREFACE .
... have added drape- ries and backgrounds , but the head and figure are by Mr. Boswell . " Mr. Burke told Sir James Mackintosh , that he thought Johnson showed more powers of mind in company than in his writings X PREFACE .
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... thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own . " It was a strange and fortunate concurrence , that one so prone to talk and who talked so well , should be brought into such close contact and confidence ...
... thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own . " It was a strange and fortunate concurrence , that one so prone to talk and who talked so well , should be brought into such close contact and confidence ...
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... thought more respectable ; and have been pictured on the walls of Auchinleck ( the very name of which we never should have heard ) by some stiff , provincial painter , in a lawyer's wig or a squire's hunting cap ; but his portrait by ...
... thought more respectable ; and have been pictured on the walls of Auchinleck ( the very name of which we never should have heard ) by some stiff , provincial painter , in a lawyer's wig or a squire's hunting cap ; but his portrait by ...
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... thought and feeling of their kind , and invests the very soil where it can be shown they ever set foot , with a living and sacred charm of interest , years and ages after the loftiest of the contemporaries , that did or did not ...
... thought and feeling of their kind , and invests the very soil where it can be shown they ever set foot , with a living and sacred charm of interest , years and ages after the loftiest of the contemporaries , that did or did not ...
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... thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live , and to " live o'er each scene " 2 with him , as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life . Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was ...
... thought ; by which mankind are enabled as it were to see him live , and to " live o'er each scene " 2 with him , as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life . Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was ...
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