Boswell's Life of JohnsonG. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 298 Seiten |
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... word , and never looked at it so as to compare it with the " Lives of the Poets , " as published under Mr. Cibber's name . What became of that manuscript I know not . I should have liked much to examine it . I suppose it was thrown into ...
... word , and never looked at it so as to compare it with the " Lives of the Poets , " as published under Mr. Cibber's name . What became of that manuscript I know not . I should have liked much to examine it . I suppose it was thrown into ...
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... words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled ' Cibber's Lives of the Poets , ' was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud a large portion of him , and then asked , ' Is not ...
... words sometimes , that the sense can hardly peep through . Shiels , who compiled ' Cibber's Lives of the Poets , ' was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud a large portion of him , and then asked , ' Is not ...
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... words were written in a book ! " I observed the great defect of the tragedy of “ Othello ” was , that it had not a moral ; for that no man could resist the circumstances of suspicion which were artfully suggested to Othello's mind ...
... words were written in a book ! " I observed the great defect of the tragedy of “ Othello ” was , that it had not a moral ; for that no man could resist the circumstances of suspicion which were artfully suggested to Othello's mind ...
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... word - none of those vinous flights . " SIR JOSHUA : " Because you have sat by , quite sober , and felt an envy of the happiness of those who were drinking . ” JOHNSON : " Perhaps contempt . And , Sir , it is not necessary to be drunk ...
... word - none of those vinous flights . " SIR JOSHUA : " Because you have sat by , quite sober , and felt an envy of the happiness of those who were drinking . ” JOHNSON : " Perhaps contempt . And , Sir , it is not necessary to be drunk ...
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... word exercising the whole authority of this complicated character . We shall find them not only encouraging the good by exhortation , but terrifying the wicked by reproof and denunciation . In the earliest ages of the church , while ...
... word exercising the whole authority of this complicated character . We shall find them not only encouraging the good by exhortation , but terrifying the wicked by reproof and denunciation . In the earliest ages of the church , while ...
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