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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said , " When I was a young fellow I wanted to write the Life of Dryden , ' and in
order to get materials , I applied to the only two persons then alive who had seen
him ; these were old Swinney and old Cibber . Swinney's information was no
more ...
said , " When I was a young fellow I wanted to write the Life of Dryden , ' and in
order to get materials , I applied to the only two persons then alive who had seen
him ; these were old Swinney and old Cibber . Swinney's information was no
more ...
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maintained , that “ If a man is to write A Pane . gyric he may keep vices out of
sight ; but if he professes to write A Life he must represent it really as it was ; " and
when a person objected to the danger of telling that Parnell drank to excess , he ...
maintained , that “ If a man is to write A Pane . gyric he may keep vices out of
sight ; but if he professes to write A Life he must represent it really as it was ; " and
when a person objected to the danger of telling that Parnell drank to excess , he ...
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The Wealth of Nations , which was just published , and that Sir John Pringle had
observed to him , that Dr. Smith , who had never been in trade , could not be
expected to write well on that subject any more than a lawyer upon physick .
Johnson ...
The Wealth of Nations , which was just published , and that Sir John Pringle had
observed to him , that Dr. Smith , who had never been in trade , could not be
expected to write well on that subject any more than a lawyer upon physick .
Johnson ...
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The Critical Reviewers , I believe , often review without reading the books
through ; but lay hold of a topick , and write ... Sir Joshua Reynolds said , that he
wondered to find so much good writing employed in them , when the authors
were to ...
The Critical Reviewers , I believe , often review without reading the books
through ; but lay hold of a topick , and write ... Sir Joshua Reynolds said , that he
wondered to find so much good writing employed in them , when the authors
were to ...
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Elvira , " which had been acted the preceding winter at Drury - lane , and that the
Honourable Andrew Erskine , Mr. Dempster , and himself , had joined in writing a
pamphlet , entitled “ Critical Strictures ' against it . That the mildness of ...
Elvira , " which had been acted the preceding winter at Drury - lane , and that the
Honourable Andrew Erskine , Mr. Dempster , and himself , had joined in writing a
pamphlet , entitled “ Critical Strictures ' against it . That the mildness of ...
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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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