The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... talked and mused , while you have roved over a considerable part of Europe ; yet I have not envied my Baretti any of his pleasures , though , perhaps , I have envied others his company : and I am glad to have other nations made ...
... talked and mused , while you have roved over a considerable part of Europe ; yet I have not envied my Baretti any of his pleasures , though , perhaps , I have envied others his company : and I am glad to have other nations made ...
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... . " 99 When I talked to him of the paternal estate to which I was heir , he said , " Sir , let me tell you , that to be a Scotch landlord , where you have a number of families dependent upon you BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON . 113.
... . " 99 When I talked to him of the paternal estate to which I was heir , he said , " Sir , let me tell you , that to be a Scotch landlord , where you have a number of families dependent upon you BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON . 113.
Pàgina 116
... talked carelessly without knowledge of the subject , or even without thought . His person was short , his coun- tenance coarse and vulgar , his deportment that of a scholar awk- wardly affecting the easy gentleman . Those who were in ...
... talked carelessly without knowledge of the subject , or even without thought . His person was short , his coun- tenance coarse and vulgar , his deportment that of a scholar awk- wardly affecting the easy gentleman . Those who were in ...
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... talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry , observ- ing , that " it had a temporary currency , only from its audacity of abuse , and being filled with living names , and that it would sink into oblivion . " I ventured to hint ...
... talked very contemptuously of Churchill's poetry , observ- ing , that " it had a temporary currency , only from its audacity of abuse , and being filled with living names , and that it would sink into oblivion . " I ventured to hint ...
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... talked of the education of children ; and I asked him what he thought was best to teach them first . JOHNSON : " Sir , it is no matter what you teach them first , any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first . Sir , you ...
... talked of the education of children ; and I asked him what he thought was best to teach them first . JOHNSON : " Sir , it is no matter what you teach them first , any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first . Sir , you ...
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