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Pagina xii
... mind in company than in his writings , and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own . " It was a strange and fortunate concurrence , that one so prone to talk and ...
... mind in company than in his writings , and on another occasion said , that he thought Johnson appeared greater in Mr. Boswell's volumes than even in his own . " It was a strange and fortunate concurrence , that one so prone to talk and ...
Pagina xvii
... mind's eye , a personification as lively as that of Siddons in Lady Macbeth , or Kemble in Cardinal Wolsey . All this , as the world knows , arises from his having found in James Boswell such a biographer as no man but himself ever had ...
... mind's eye , a personification as lively as that of Siddons in Lady Macbeth , or Kemble in Cardinal Wolsey . All this , as the world knows , arises from his having found in James Boswell such a biographer as no man but himself ever had ...
Pagina 7
... 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 disap- pointed of its gratifications ...
... 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 disap- pointed of its gratifications ...
Pagina 8
... mind and prompt assiduity by which so many con- versations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it ...
... mind and prompt assiduity by which so many con- versations were preserved , I myself , at some distance of time , contemplate with wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it ...
Pagina 11
... minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Nor Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just repre- sentation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal . will I suppress my satisfaction in ...
... minds ; and you have given us Dr. Johnson's authority that in history all ought to be told . " Nor Such a sanction to my faculty of giving a just repre- sentation of Dr. Johnson I could not conceal . will I suppress my satisfaction in ...
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