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Pagina xiii
... never failed in the respect and reverence due to literature , morals , and re- ligion ; and posterity gratefully acknowledges the taste , temper , and talents with which he selected , enjoyed , and described that polished and ...
... never failed in the respect and reverence due to literature , morals , and re- ligion ; and posterity gratefully acknowledges the taste , temper , and talents with which he selected , enjoyed , and described that polished and ...
Pagina xiv
... never should have heard ) by some stiff , provincial painter , in a lawyer's wig or a squire's hunting cap ; but his portrait , by Reynolds , would not have been ten times engraved ; his name could never have Decome - - as it is likely ...
... never should have heard ) by some stiff , provincial painter , in a lawyer's wig or a squire's hunting cap ; but his portrait , by Reynolds , would not have been ten times engraved ; his name could never have Decome - - as it is likely ...
Pagina xvi
... never more happy than when , on such occasion , Mr. Boswell was seated within his hearing . Society gratified Sir Joshua by electing Mr. Secretary of Foreign Correspondence ; which made him an Honorary Member of that body . " — Life of ...
... never more happy than when , on such occasion , Mr. Boswell was seated within his hearing . Society gratified Sir Joshua by electing Mr. Secretary of Foreign Correspondence ; which made him an Honorary Member of that body . " — Life of ...
Pagina xvii
... never saw him , yet he is , in our 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 ...
... never saw him , yet he is , in our 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 ...
Pagina xix
... never strutted their hour on the glittering stage ? Boswell's ' Johnson ' is , without doubt , excepting , yet hardly excepting , a few immortal monuments of creative genius , that English book which , were this island to be sunk to ...
... never strutted their hour on the glittering stage ? Boswell's ' Johnson ' is , without doubt , excepting , yet hardly excepting , a few immortal monuments of creative genius , that English book which , were this island to be sunk to ...
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