The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pagina's |
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Pagina iii
... English Lexicography ; and for that portrait we are indebted to a bumptious , blatant , bibulous Scotch laird , who was the butt of the satirists and the gossips , the Peter Pindars and the Piozzis , of his own time , and whom critics ...
... English Lexicography ; and for that portrait we are indebted to a bumptious , blatant , bibulous Scotch laird , who was the butt of the satirists and the gossips , the Peter Pindars and the Piozzis , of his own time , and whom critics ...
Pagina vi
... English literature , we had almost said any literature , no such pointed and finished sentences are to be found as many of those which Johnson , when company and a solid dinner had removed from his soul the burden of his self ...
... English literature , we had almost said any literature , no such pointed and finished sentences are to be found as many of those which Johnson , when company and a solid dinner had removed from his soul the burden of his self ...
Pagina 7
... English by Dame Chiver , a widow , who kept a school for young children in Lichfield . He told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a Bible in that character . When he was going to ...
... English by Dame Chiver , a widow , who kept a school for young children in Lichfield . He told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a Bible in that character . When he was going to ...
Pagina 14
... English books written on the subject , followed his usual amuse- ments , and considered his conscience as lightened of a crime . He redoubled his diligence to learn the lan- guage that contained the information he most wished for ; but ...
... English books written on the subject , followed his usual amuse- ments , and considered his conscience as lightened of a crime . He redoubled his diligence to learn the lan- guage that contained the information he most wished for ; but ...
Pagina 20
... English , critical re- marks on authors ancient or modern , forgotten poems that deserve revival , or loose pieces , like Floyer's , worth preserving . By this method , your literary article for so it might be called- will , he thinks ...
... English , critical re- marks on authors ancient or modern , forgotten poems that deserve revival , or loose pieces , like Floyer's , worth preserving . By this method , your literary article for so it might be called- will , he thinks ...
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