The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pagina's |
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... once himself of his being much dis- tinguished at school , he told me , " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
... once himself of his being much dis- tinguished at school , he told me , " They never thought to raise me by comparing me to any one ; they never said Johnson is as good a scholar as such a one ; but such a one is as good a scholar as ...
Pagina 11
... once asked him whether a person , whose name I have now forgotten , studied hard , he answered , " No , sir ; I do ... once observed to me , that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . ” He had a peculiar facility in seizing at ...
... once asked him whether a person , whose name I have now forgotten , studied hard , he answered , " No , sir ; I do ... once observed to me , that " Johnson knew more books than any man alive . ” He had a peculiar facility in seizing at ...
Pagina 17
... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licen- tious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation and totally concentrated in one object ...
... once . In a man whom religious education has secured from licen- tious indulgences , the passion of love , when once it has seized him , is exceedingly strong ; being unimpaired by dissipation and totally concentrated in one object ...
Pagina 18
... once surprise and ridicule . Mrs. Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages , and said to her daughter , " this is the most sensi- ble man that I ever saw in my life . " Though ...
... once surprise and ridicule . Mrs. Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages , and said to her daughter , " this is the most sensi- ble man that I ever saw in my life . " Though ...
Pagina 27
... once its Juvenal and Horace as poetical monitors . The Reverend Dr. Douglas , now Bishop of Salisbury , to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications , was then a student at Oxford , and remembers well the effect which " London ...
... once its Juvenal and Horace as poetical monitors . The Reverend Dr. Douglas , now Bishop of Salisbury , to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications , was then a student at Oxford , and remembers well the effect which " London ...
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