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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-S . “ Would you restrain private conversation , Sir ? ” - J . “ Why , Sir , it is difficult
to say where private conversation begins , and where it ends . If we three should
discuss even the great question concerning the existence of a Supreme Being ...
-S . “ Would you restrain private conversation , Sir ? ” - J . “ Why , Sir , it is difficult
to say where private conversation begins , and where it ends . If we three should
discuss even the great question concerning the existence of a Supreme Being ...
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So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest , and such
was his notion of Burke as an opponent . He used frequently to observe , that
men might be very eminent in a profession without our perceiving any particular ...
So much was he accustomed to consider conversation as a contest , and such
was his notion of Burke as an opponent . He used frequently to observe , that
men might be very eminent in a profession without our perceiving any particular ...
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The conversation turning on Mr. Pope , Lord Bathurst told us , that . The Essay on
Man was originally composed by Lord Bolingbroke in prose , and that Mr. Pope
did no more than put it into verse : that he had read Lord Bolingbroke's ...
The conversation turning on Mr. Pope , Lord Bathurst told us , that . The Essay on
Man was originally composed by Lord Bolingbroke in prose , and that Mr. Pope
did no more than put it into verse : that he had read Lord Bolingbroke's ...
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Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of
Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of
Johnson Samuel Johnson. witness of his having said so . The conversation was
indeed too ...
Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of
Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of
Johnson Samuel Johnson. witness of his having said so . The conversation was
indeed too ...
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Johnson on some occasion observed , “ Garrick's conversation is gay and
grotesque . It is a dish of all sorts , but all good things . There is no solid meat in it
; there is a want of sentiment in it . Not but that he has sentiment sometimes , and
...
Johnson on some occasion observed , “ Garrick's conversation is gay and
grotesque . It is a dish of all sorts , but all good things . There is no solid meat in it
; there is a want of sentiment in it . Not but that he has sentiment sometimes , and
...
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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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