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Pagina 4
... told they had opposed it , he said , ' Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious re- luctance to sit for a picture . " " John Gilbert Cooper related , that soon ...
... told they had opposed it , he said , ' Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious re- luctance to sit for a picture . " " John Gilbert Cooper related , that soon ...
Pagina 6
... told a physical truth . If I thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " 4 " " Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute ...
... told a physical truth . If I thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " 4 " " Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dispute ...
Pagina 8
... told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto . " " He would allow no settled indulgence of idle- ness upon principle , and always repelled every at- tempt to urge excuses for it . A friend one day sug- gested , that it ...
... told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto . " " He would allow no settled indulgence of idle- ness upon principle , and always repelled every at- tempt to urge excuses for it . A friend one day sug- gested , that it ...
Pagina 28
... told Mr. Langton , that Johnson said to him , Sir , a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing , than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down . " " My dear friend Dr. Bathurst , ( said he ...
... told Mr. Langton , that Johnson said to him , Sir , a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing , than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down . " " My dear friend Dr. Bathurst , ( said he ...
Pagina 30
... told in his lively manner the following lite- rary anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irishman and a Scotchman , undertook a translation of Du- halde's history of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English , and Guthrie of ...
... told in his lively manner the following lite- rary anecdote : Green and Guthrie , an Irishman and a Scotchman , undertook a translation of Du- halde's history of China . Green said of Guthrie , that he knew no English , and Guthrie of ...
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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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