Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of Atour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Том 3; Томове 1776–1780Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... conversation among friends did , in former days , encourage and excuse . ' H. C. Robinson ( Diary , iii . 485 ) says that Dr. Burney ' spoke with great warmth of affection of Dr. Johnson , and said he was the kindest creature in the ...
... conversation among friends did , in former days , encourage and excuse . ' H. C. Robinson ( Diary , iii . 485 ) says that Dr. Burney ' spoke with great warmth of affection of Dr. Johnson , and said he was the kindest creature in the ...
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... conversation . I found it mighty dull ; and , as to the style , it is fit for the second table ' . ' Why he thought so 32 The MONTHLY and CRITICAL REVIEWS . [ A.D. 1776. Aetat . 67. ] 31 of it , and who bore a respectable character ...
... conversation . I found it mighty dull ; and , as to the style , it is fit for the second table ' . ' Why he thought so 32 The MONTHLY and CRITICAL REVIEWS . [ A.D. 1776. Aetat . 67. ] 31 of it , and who bore a respectable character ...
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... conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him3 . He expatiated a little more on them this evening . ' The Monthly Reviewers ( said he ) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little christianity as may be ; and are for ...
... conversation with which his Majesty had honoured him3 . He expatiated a little more on them this evening . ' The Monthly Reviewers ( said he ) are not Deists ; but they are Christians with as little christianity as may be ; and are for ...
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... conversation , proposed to Cowper the Mediterranean for a topic . He replied , " Unless I were a better his- torian than I am , there would be no proportion between the theme and my ability . It seems , indeed , not to be so properly a ...
... conversation , proposed to Cowper the Mediterranean for a topic . He replied , " Unless I were a better his- torian than I am , there would be no proportion between the theme and my ability . It seems , indeed , not to be so properly a ...
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... conversation of this evening3 . Dr. Johnson said , ' Thomson had a true poetical genius , the power of view- ing every thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through ...
... conversation of this evening3 . Dr. Johnson said , ' Thomson had a true poetical genius , the power of view- ing every thing in a poetical light . His fault is such a cloud of words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through ...
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