The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Nearly Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 pagina's |
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Pagina xviii
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
Pagina xxx
... truth . " [ Rambler , No. 60. ] What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and ...
... truth . " [ Rambler , No. 60. ] What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is , the quantity it contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and ...
Pagina 1
... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of VOL . I. B gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native.
... truth is , that the appellation of Gentleman , though now lost in the indiscriminate assump- tion of Esquire , was commonly taken by those who could not boast of VOL . I. B gentility . His father was Michael Johnson , a native.
Pagina 5
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told , 2 that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told , 2 that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
Pagina 6
... truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentic relation of facts , and such authority may there be for error ; for he assured me that his father made the verses , and wished to ...
... truth of this anecdote , for she had heard it from his mother . So difficult is it to obtain an authentic relation of facts , and such authority may there be for error ; for he assured me that his father made the verses , and wished to ...
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