Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... character , would stand in sober earnest for Boswell's . Still idle , with a busy air , Deep whimsies to contrive ; The gayest valetudinaire , Most thinking rake alive . The very frankness of his follies , the sublime audacity with ...
... character , would stand in sober earnest for Boswell's . Still idle , with a busy air , Deep whimsies to contrive ; The gayest valetudinaire , Most thinking rake alive . The very frankness of his follies , the sublime audacity with ...
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... character ; and as have spared no pains in obtaining materials concerning him , from every quarter where I could discover that they were to be found , and have been favoured with the most liberal communi- cations by his friends ; I ...
... character ; and as have spared no pains in obtaining materials concerning him , from every quarter where I could discover that they were to be found , and have been favoured with the most liberal communi- cations by his friends ; I ...
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... character is more fully understood and illustrated . Indeed I cannot conceive a more per- fect mode of writing any man's life , than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order , but inter- weaving what he ...
... character is more fully understood and illustrated . Indeed I cannot conceive a more per- fect mode of writing any man's life , than not only relating all the most important events of it in their order , but inter- weaving what he ...
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... character , which repre- sents him as careful of his health , and negligent of his life . " But biography has often been allotted to writers , who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the ...
... character , which repre- sents him as careful of his health , and negligent of his life . " But biography has often been allotted to writers , who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task , or very negligent about the ...
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... character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became ... characters , is often a matter of undecided contest , being as clear in his case as the superiority of stature in ...
... character in the learned world is well known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became ... characters , is often a matter of undecided contest , being as clear in his case as the superiority of stature in ...
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