Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1980 - 1492 páginas This minute account of the life of the great eighteenth-century thinker and writer is probably the most famous biography in the English language. |
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... mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge ... mind at ease , ' a mind at once calm and clear ; but that a mind gloomy and impetuous like that of Johnson , cannot be ...
... mind . His own acquisitions had been made by fits and starts , by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge ... mind at ease , ' a mind at once calm and clear ; but that a mind gloomy and impetuous like that of Johnson , cannot be ...
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... mind , he writes very rapidly.1 1 Johnson certainly did , who had a mind stored with knowledge , and teeming with imagery : but the observation is not applicable to writers in general . The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in ...
... mind , he writes very rapidly.1 1 Johnson certainly did , who had a mind stored with knowledge , and teeming with imagery : but the observation is not applicable to writers in general . The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in ...
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... mind ' unsettled and perplexed , ' and from that constitutional gloom , which , together with his extreme humility and anxiety with regard to his religious state , made him contemplate himself through too dark and unfavourable a medium ...
... mind ' unsettled and perplexed , ' and from that constitutional gloom , which , together with his extreme humility and anxiety with regard to his religious state , made him contemplate himself through too dark and unfavourable a medium ...
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Part of a Review of Graingers Sugar Cane a Poem in the London | 16 |
The False Alarm acknowl | 431 |
Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falklands Islands | 450 |
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acknowl acquaintance admiration afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked authour Beauclerk believe BENNET LANGTON bookseller Boswell Papers Boswell's character church compliments consider conversation dear Sir death Dictionary dined doubt Edinburgh edition eminent English favour Garrick gentleman Gentleman's Magazine give Goldsmith happy heard Hebrides honour hope humble servant JAMES BOSWELL John kind King lady Langton language learning letter Lichfield literary lived London Lord Lord Chesterfield Lord Monboddo Lucy Porter manner mentioned merit mind never obliged observed occasion once opinion Oxford Pembroke College perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet praise publick published Rambler recollect remarkable Reverend Samuel Johnson Scotland Shakspeare shew Sir John Hawkins Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked tell thing THOMAS WARTON thought Thrale tion told truth Warton wish write written wrote
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Cognitive-behavioural Therapy: Research, Practice, and Philosophy Brian Sheldon Sin vista previa disponible - 1995 |