The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Dent, 1949 |
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Pagina 38
... conversation seem too desultory , Johnson observed , " Oglethorpe , Sir , never completes what he has to say . " He on the same account made a similar remark on Patrick Lord Elibank : " Sir , there is nothing conclusive in his talk ...
... conversation seem too desultory , Johnson observed , " Oglethorpe , Sir , never completes what he has to say . " He on the same account made a similar remark on Patrick Lord Elibank : " Sir , there is nothing conclusive in his talk ...
Pagina 134
... conversation so as to exhibit it with any degree of its original flavour , it was necessary to write it down without delay . To record his sayings , after some distance of time , was like preserving or pickling long - kept and faded ...
... conversation so as to exhibit it with any degree of its original flavour , it was necessary to write it down without delay . To record his sayings , after some distance of time , was like preserving or pickling long - kept and faded ...
Pagina 240
... conversation there is more instruction , more information , and more elegance , than in Ramsay's . ' BOSWELL . What I admire in Ramsay , is his continuing to be so young . " JOHNSON . ' Why , yes , Sir ; it is to be admired . I value ...
... conversation there is more instruction , more information , and more elegance , than in Ramsay's . ' BOSWELL . What I admire in Ramsay , is his continuing to be so young . " JOHNSON . ' Why , yes , Sir ; it is to be admired . I value ...
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