Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... admiration for his genius Dr. Hill indeed yields not even to Boswell . His de- light in his work has perhaps at times led him into some superfluous liberality in the matter of notes ; but his apt quotation of Johnson's famous advice to ...
... admiration for his genius Dr. Hill indeed yields not even to Boswell . His de- light in his work has perhaps at times led him into some superfluous liberality in the matter of notes ; but his apt quotation of Johnson's famous advice to ...
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... admiration for all that was good and great , which , though often ludicrously expressed nor always capable of preserving him from admiration for other things that were neither great nor good , was undoubtedly genuine . His extraordinary ...
... admiration for all that was good and great , which , though often ludicrously expressed nor always capable of preserving him from admiration for other things that were neither great nor good , was undoubtedly genuine . His extraordinary ...
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... admiration which three generations of men have lavished on his book has never stimulated any admiration for its author . But this is not all the truth . Boswell did not write his book by chance . He did not blunder into success . On the ...
... admiration which three generations of men have lavished on his book has never stimulated any admiration for its author . But this is not all the truth . Boswell did not write his book by chance . He did not blunder into success . On the ...
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... admiration o future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your tru politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre ...
... admiration o future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your tru politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common centre ...
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... admired him . Yet , luminous as he was upon the whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm ...
... admired him . Yet , luminous as he was upon the whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition ; all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm ...
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