The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolatory Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 |
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... judge who has a good taste in style , and who has a bad . The two classes of persons whom you have mentioned , don't suffer as to good and bad . They both agree that Swift has a good neat style ; but one loves a neat style , another ...
... judge who has a good taste in style , and who has a bad . The two classes of persons whom you have mentioned , don't suffer as to good and bad . They both agree that Swift has a good neat style ; but one loves a neat style , another ...
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... judge very rightly in supposing that 1772 . Dr. Johnson's favourable opinion of my book inust give me great delight . Indeed it is impossible for me to say how much I am gratified by it ; for there is not a man upon earth whose good ...
... judge very rightly in supposing that 1772 . Dr. Johnson's favourable opinion of my book inust give me great delight . Indeed it is impossible for me to say how much I am gratified by it ; for there is not a man upon earth whose good ...
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... judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman , and of his curious work on the Middle State , " Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " 3d edit . p . 371 . 2 [ There is ...
... judge at first what is good or bad ; and write immediately See an account of this learned and respectable gentleman , and of his curious work on the Middle State , " Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , " 3d edit . p . 371 . 2 [ There is ...
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... judge of it . " GOLDSMITH . " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , that is not to the pur- pose of our argument : that will as much prove that he can play upon the fiddle as well as Giardini ...
... judge of it . " GOLDSMITH . " He is what is much better : he is a worthy humane man . " JOHNSON . " Nay , Sir , that is not to the pur- pose of our argument : that will as much prove that he can play upon the fiddle as well as Giardini ...
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... Judges are seven and seven , the casting vote of the President must be given on one side or other ; no matter , for my argument , on which ; one or the other must be taken ; as when I am to move , there is no matter which leg I move ...
... Judges are seven and seven , the casting vote of the President must be given on one side or other ; no matter , for my argument , on which ; one or the other must be taken ; as when I am to move , there is no matter which leg I move ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 2 James Boswell,Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1791 |
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