Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2 |
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Johnson himself was very much affected by the death of his mother , and sent to
Mr. Boswell to come and assist him to compose his mind , which indeed was
extremely agitated .-- He lamented that all serious and religious conversation
was ...
Johnson himself was very much affected by the death of his mother , and sent to
Mr. Boswell to come and assist him to compose his mind , which indeed was
extremely agitated .-- He lamented that all serious and religious conversation
was ...
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Talking of those writers who had affected to imitate his style , Johnson said , “ The
imitators of my style have not hit it . Miss Aikin has done it best ; for she has
imitated the sentiment as well as the diction . " He observed , that a gentleman of
...
Talking of those writers who had affected to imitate his style , Johnson said , “ The
imitators of my style have not hit it . Miss Aikin has done it best ; for she has
imitated the sentiment as well as the diction . " He observed , that a gentleman of
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He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch ; but will
not enquire whether the watch is right or wot ; ” Such was Johnson's sensibility ,
and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry , that the reading of Dr. Beattie's
...
He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch ; but will
not enquire whether the watch is right or wot ; ” Such was Johnson's sensibility ,
and so much was he affected by pathetick poetry , that the reading of Dr. Beattie's
...
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_ " Why ( replied Garrick , with an affected indifference , yet as if standing on tip -
toe ) , Lord Camden has this moment left me . We have had a long walk together .
” — J . “ Well , Sir , Garrick talked very properly . Lord Camden was a little ...
_ " Why ( replied Garrick , with an affected indifference , yet as if standing on tip -
toe ) , Lord Camden has this moment left me . We have had a long walk together .
” — J . “ Well , Sir , Garrick talked very properly . Lord Camden was a little ...
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... affected then not to attend to it ; but by and by , when there was a general
silence , and he thought that the flattery might be fully heard , he addressed
himself to the gentleman , “ I think , Siry you were saying something about , "
pausing in a ...
... affected then not to attend to it ; but by and by , when there was a general
silence , and he thought that the flattery might be fully heard , he addressed
himself to the gentleman , “ I think , Siry you were saying something about , "
pausing in a ...
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| Título | Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2 Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | J. Mawman, 1807 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 20 Abr. 2017 |
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