Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1980 - 1492 страници This minute account of the life of the great eighteenth-century thinker and writer is probably the most famous biography in the English language. |
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... Lord Chesterfield must have been mortified by the lofty contempt , and polite , yet keen satire with which Johnson ex- hibited him to himself in this letter , it is impossible to doubt . He , however , with that glossy duplicity which ...
... Lord Chesterfield must have been mortified by the lofty contempt , and polite , yet keen satire with which Johnson ex- hibited him to himself in this letter , it is impossible to doubt . He , however , with that glossy duplicity which ...
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... Lord Chesterfield , did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : " This man ( said he ) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but , I find , he is only a wit among Lords ! ' And when his ...
... Lord Chesterfield , did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom : " This man ( said he ) I thought had been a Lord among wits ; but , I find , he is only a wit among Lords ! ' And when his ...
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... Lord , do you recollect any particulars that he told you of Lord Peterborough ? He is a favourite of mine , and is not enough known ; his character has been only ventilated in party pamphlets . ' Lord Eliot said , if Dr. Johnson would ...
... Lord , do you recollect any particulars that he told you of Lord Peterborough ? He is a favourite of mine , and is not enough known ; his character has been only ventilated in party pamphlets . ' Lord Eliot said , if Dr. Johnson would ...
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