The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... attention as an insult to his manliness , he ran back to her in a rage , and beat her , as well as his strength would permit . Of the power of his memory , for which he was all his life emi- nent to a degree almost incredible , the ...
... attention as an insult to his manliness , he ran back to her in a rage , and beat her , as well as his strength would permit . Of the power of his memory , for which he was all his life emi- nent to a degree almost incredible , the ...
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... attention and perceptive quickness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . It has been said , that he contracted this grievous malady from his nurse ...
... attention and perceptive quickness made him see and distinguish all manner of objects , whether of nature or of art , with a nicety that is rarely to be found . It has been said , that he contracted this grievous malady from his nurse ...
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... attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellencies of composition ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects may not grow weary . " He communicated to me the following particulars upon ...
... attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellencies of composition ; that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects may not grow weary . " He communicated to me the following particulars upon ...
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... attention steadily upon something without , and prevented his mind from preying upon itself . Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides's Tragedies , of the Georgics of Virgil , of the first six ...
... attention steadily upon something without , and prevented his mind from preying upon itself . Thus I find in his handwriting the number of lines in each of two of Euripides's Tragedies , of the Georgics of Virgil , of the first six ...
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... attention so strongly , that , not being able to lay down the book till he had finished it , when he attempted to move , he found his arm totally benumbed . The rapidity with which this work was composed , is a wonderful circumstance ...
... attention so strongly , that , not being able to lay down the book till he had finished it , when he attempted to move , he found his arm totally benumbed . The rapidity with which this work was composed , is a wonderful circumstance ...
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