The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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Pagina xi
... passages of a more general interest , which ought to be in the hands of all those who are to profit by that gentleman's ingenuity and research : - " It were superfluous to expatiate on the merits , at least as a source of amusement , of ...
... passages of a more general interest , which ought to be in the hands of all those who are to profit by that gentleman's ingenuity and research : - " It were superfluous to expatiate on the merits , at least as a source of amusement , of ...
Pagina xv
... passages in which other writers have recorded their estimation of Boswell ; concluding with a few extracts from the periodical literature of our own times . Malone . " Highly as this work is now estimated , it will , I am con- fident ...
... passages in which other writers have recorded their estimation of Boswell ; concluding with a few extracts from the periodical literature of our own times . Malone . " Highly as this work is now estimated , it will , I am con- fident ...
Pagina xvi
... passages in his entertaining anecdotes of his friend Samuel Johnson , who yet lives and speaks in him , The book of Boswell is , ever as the year comes round , my winter - evening's entertainment . I loved the man he had great convivial ...
... passages in his entertaining anecdotes of his friend Samuel Johnson , who yet lives and speaks in him , The book of Boswell is , ever as the year comes round , my winter - evening's entertainment . I loved the man he had great convivial ...
Pagina 5
... passages , be different from the former . In my " Tour , " I was almost unboundedly open in my communica- tions , and from my eagerness to display the wonder- ful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , freely showed to the world its ...
... passages , be different from the former . In my " Tour , " I was almost unboundedly open in my communica- tions , and from my eagerness to display the wonder- ful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , freely showed to the world its ...
Pagina 11
... passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more ...
... passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross expressions had been softened , and a few of our hero's foibles had been a little more ...
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