The Life of Samuel JohnsonModern Library, 1952 - 559 pagina's |
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Pagina 47
... marked by profligacy , insolence , and ingratitude : yet , as he undoubtedly had a warm and vigorous , though unregulated mind , had seen life in all its varieties , and been much in the company of the statesmen and wits of his time ...
... marked by profligacy , insolence , and ingratitude : yet , as he undoubtedly had a warm and vigorous , though unregulated mind , had seen life in all its varieties , and been much in the company of the statesmen and wits of his time ...
Pagina 54
... marked the passages with a black - lead pencil , the traces of which could easily be effaced . It is remarkable , that he was so attentive in the choice of the passages in which words were authorised , that one may read page after page ...
... marked the passages with a black - lead pencil , the traces of which could easily be effaced . It is remarkable , that he was so attentive in the choice of the passages in which words were authorised , that one may read page after page ...
Pagina 270
... marked in my Journal , is as follows : ' I felt a foolish regret that he had left a court which bore his name ; but it was not foolish to be affected with some tenderness of regard for a place in which I had seen him a great deal , from ...
... marked in my Journal , is as follows : ' I felt a foolish regret that he had left a court which bore his name ; but it was not foolish to be affected with some tenderness of regard for a place in which I had seen him a great deal , from ...
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