Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1893 - 718 páginas |
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... truth and brilliancy of its extraordinary portraiture were instantly recognized , and have never since been disputed . Burke pronounced it a greater monument to Johnson's fame than all the Doctor's own writings ; Reynolds declared that ...
... truth and brilliancy of its extraordinary portraiture were instantly recognized , and have never since been disputed . Burke pronounced it a greater monument to Johnson's fame than all the Doctor's own writings ; Reynolds declared that ...
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... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
... truth , I have still kept in my mind that the whole truth is not always to be exposed . This , however , I have managed so as to occasion no diminution of the pleasure which my book should afford ; though malignity may sometimes be ...
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... truth . " 1 What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is the quantity 1 Rambler , No. 60. B. 3 contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and ...
... truth . " 1 What I consider as the peculiar value of the following work , is the quantity 1 Rambler , No. 60. B. 3 contains of Johnson's conversation , which is universally acknowledged to have been eminently instructive and ...
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... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told , 1 that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
... truth of which I am to refute upon his own authority . It is told , 1 that , when a child of three years old , he chanced to tread upon a duckling , the eleventh of a brood , and killed it ; upon which , it is said , he dictated to his ...
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... truth , there was not the least reality in any of the suppositions ; so that when the vapours were dispelled , they werer convinced of the delusion . To Johnson , whose supreme enjoyment was the exer- cise of his reason , the ...
... truth , there was not the least reality in any of the suppositions ; so that when the vapours were dispelled , they werer convinced of the delusion . To Johnson , whose supreme enjoyment was the exer- cise of his reason , the ...
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