The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Including A Journal of a Tour to the HebridesHarper & Brothers, 1863 |
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Pagina 189
... conversation is neither instructive nor brilliant . He does not talk as if impelled by any fulness of [ The simplicity with which Boswell repeats this flattery , without seeing that it was only a peace - offering , is very ...
... conversation is neither instructive nor brilliant . He does not talk as if impelled by any fulness of [ The simplicity with which Boswell repeats this flattery , without seeing that it was only a peace - offering , is very ...
Pagina 326
... conversation , he said , " There must , in the first place , be knowledge- there must be materials ; in the second place , there must be a command of words ; in the third place , there must be imagina- tion , to place things in such ...
... conversation , he said , " There must , in the first place , be knowledge- there must be materials ; in the second place , there must be a command of words ; in the third place , there must be imagina- tion , to place things in such ...
Pagina 399
... conversation with intelligent and ingenious persons . His first question concerning such as had that character was ever , " What is his conversation ? " Speaking one day of tea , he said , " What a delightful beverage must that be that ...
... conversation with intelligent and ingenious persons . His first question concerning such as had that character was ever , " What is his conversation ? " Speaking one day of tea , he said , " What a delightful beverage must that be that ...
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acquaintance admirable afterwards Anec ante appears Ashbourne asked asthma authour believe Bishop Boothby Boswell's Brocklesby Burke called character church conversation dear sir death Derbyshire dined dinner doubt Dr Johnson Editor expressed favour Garrick gentleman give happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind lady Langton late learned letter Lichfield live London Lord Lord Monboddo lordship LUCY PORTER madam Malone manner ment mentioned mind Miss Reynolds morning ness never night obliged observed occasion once opinion perhaps person Piozzi pleased pleasure poet praise Pray prayer publick recollect SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland seems Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing thought Thrale tion Tissington told truth whig Wilkes wish words write written wrote