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... character . " " One evening in company , an ingenious and learned gentleman read to him a letter of compliment which he had received from one of the Professors of a Foreign University . Johnson , in an irritable fit , thinking there was ...
... character . " " One evening in company , an ingenious and learned gentleman read to him a letter of compliment which he had received from one of the Professors of a Foreign University . Johnson , in an irritable fit , thinking there was ...
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... character . ) O brave ! ' said Johnson . " 6 " Of Mr. Longley , at Rochester , a gentleman of very considerable learning , whom Dr. Johnson met there , he said , My heart warms towards him . I was surprised to find in him such a nice ...
... character . ) O brave ! ' said Johnson . " 6 " Of Mr. Longley , at Rochester , a gentleman of very considerable learning , whom Dr. Johnson met there , he said , My heart warms towards him . I was surprised to find in him such a nice ...
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... character ( naming the person ) as to the general cast of it , is well described by Garrick , bu a great deal of the phraseology he uses in it , is quite his own , particularly in the proverbial comparisons , ' obstinate as a pig ...
... character ( naming the person ) as to the general cast of it , is well described by Garrick , bu a great deal of the phraseology he uses in it , is quite his own , particularly in the proverbial comparisons , ' obstinate as a pig ...
Pagina 18
... character , and repeated , as if part of The Old Man's Wish , ' a song by Dr. Walter Pope , a verse bordering on licentiousness . Johnson rebuked him in the finest manner , by first shewing him that he did not know the passage he was ...
... character , and repeated , as if part of The Old Man's Wish , ' a song by Dr. Walter Pope , a verse bordering on licentiousness . Johnson rebuked him in the finest manner , by first shewing him that he did not know the passage he was ...
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... Character of Hamlet , " written , I should suppose , by a very young man , though called " Reverend ; " who speaks with presumptuous petulance of the first literary character of his age . Amidst a cloudy confusion of words , ( which ...
... Character of Hamlet , " written , I should suppose , by a very young man , though called " Reverend ; " who speaks with presumptuous petulance of the first literary character of his age . Amidst a cloudy confusion of words , ( which ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 4 James Boswell Volledige weergave - 1839 |
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