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... seems odd enough ) any palpable imitation of Johnson . But in recording conversa- tions he is unrivalled : that he was eminently accurate in sub- stance , we have the evidence of all his contemporaries ; but he is also in a high degree ...
... seems odd enough ) any palpable imitation of Johnson . But in recording conversa- tions he is unrivalled : that he was eminently accurate in sub- stance , we have the evidence of all his contemporaries ; but he is also in a high degree ...
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... seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to ...
... seems I judged too well of the world ; for , though I could scarcely believe it , I have been undoubtedly informed , that many persons , especially in distant quarters , not penetrating enough into Johnson's character , so as to ...
Pagina 14
... seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instruc- tive episodes ...
... seems to me , in my moments of self - complacency , that this extensive biographical work , however inferior in its nature , may in one respect be assimilated to the Odyssey . Amidst a thousand entertaining and instruc- tive episodes ...
Pagina 21
... seems to lay it down as a principle , that every life must be a book , and , what's worse , it proves a book without a life ; for what do we know of Boileau , after all his tedious stuff ? You are the only one ( and I speak it without a ...
... seems to lay it down as a principle , that every life must be a book , and , what's worse , it proves a book without a life ; for what do we know of Boileau , after all his tedious stuff ? You are the only one ( and I speak it without a ...
Pagina 26
... seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the performance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers , but imagine themselves writing a life , when they ...
... seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the performance . They rarely afford any other account than might be collected from public papers , but imagine themselves writing a life , when they ...
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