Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Том 1W. Suttaby, 1809 |
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... Boswell , in his Life of Johnson , has re- marked , that a few days before the first of his essays ( The Rambler ) came out , there started another competitor for fame in the same form , under the title of " The Tatler Revived , " 106 ...
... Boswell , in his Life of Johnson , has re- marked , that a few days before the first of his essays ( The Rambler ) came out , there started another competitor for fame in the same form , under the title of " The Tatler Revived , " 106 ...
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... , all ancient authors , " and he attempted translations from Homer , Virgil , and Horace . Of those early efforts , Mr. Boswell VOL . IV . I has collected some specimens , of which the two versions LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 113.
... , all ancient authors , " and he attempted translations from Homer , Virgil , and Horace . Of those early efforts , Mr. Boswell VOL . IV . I has collected some specimens , of which the two versions LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . 113.
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Nathan Drake. What he read solidly at Oxford , he told Mr. Boswell , was Greek ; not the Grecian historians , but Homer and Euripides , and now and then a little epigram ; that the study of which he was the most fond was metaphysicks ...
Nathan Drake. What he read solidly at Oxford , he told Mr. Boswell , was Greek ; not the Grecian historians , but Homer and Euripides , and now and then a little epigram ; that the study of which he was the most fond was metaphysicks ...
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... Boswell has suggested , that Johnson's atten- tion to the version of Le Grand might have in- duced him , many years afterwards , to place the chief scene of his Rasselas in Abyssinia . Shortly after the completion of his translation ...
... Boswell has suggested , that Johnson's atten- tion to the version of Le Grand might have in- duced him , many years afterwards , to place the chief scene of his Rasselas in Abyssinia . Shortly after the completion of his translation ...
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... or perhaps more useful to a nation , than a great national library . It may be said , that in this country 66 * Boswell's Johnson , vol . 4 , p . 293 . such a library would be superfluous , as there exist LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
... or perhaps more useful to a nation , than a great national library . It may be said , that in this country 66 * Boswell's Johnson , vol . 4 , p . 293 . such a library would be superfluous , as there exist LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
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Страница 337 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself.
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