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Pagina xviii
... thing hap pened , nor the effect it had on those who were present . We have good things served up in sandwiches , but we do not sit down , as in Boswell , to an ordinary of fine discourse . ' There is no eating and drinking going on ...
... thing hap pened , nor the effect it had on those who were present . We have good things served up in sandwiches , but we do not sit down , as in Boswell , to an ordinary of fine discourse . ' There is no eating and drinking going on ...
Pagina 16
... thing that relates to him peculiarly interesting . Lord Ma- cartney ( 1 ) favoured me with his own copy of my book , with a number of notes , of which I have availed myself . On the first leaf I found in his Lordship's hand- writing ...
... thing that relates to him peculiarly interesting . Lord Ma- cartney ( 1 ) favoured me with his own copy of my book , with a number of notes , of which I have availed myself . On the first leaf I found in his Lordship's hand- writing ...
Pagina 21
... thing you want to be satisfied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life- writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had ...
... thing you want to be satisfied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life- writers we have had before Toland and Desmaiseaux are indeed strange insipid creatures ; and yet I had ...
Pagina 27
... things , he saith , are always of some value . And other ancient authors have the same phrase nearly in the same sense . " Of one thing I am certain , that , considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk ...
... things , he saith , are always of some value . And other ancient authors have the same phrase nearly in the same sense . " Of one thing I am certain , that , considering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk ...
Pagina 29
... things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness . From him , then , his son inherited , with some other qualities , 66 a vile melancholy ( 3 ) , ” which , in his too strong ex- pression ...
... things which agitate the greater part of mankind , and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness . From him , then , his son inherited , with some other qualities , 66 a vile melancholy ( 3 ) , ” which , in his too strong ex- pression ...
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