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About music the main thing is on no account to play it oneself . ' I declare that I would rather be reckoned the best barber than the best fiddler in England . ... A glaring example how pernicious an intimacy is with those jackanapeses ...
About music the main thing is on no account to play it oneself . ' I declare that I would rather be reckoned the best barber than the best fiddler in England . ... A glaring example how pernicious an intimacy is with those jackanapeses ...
Pagina 255
Was in a sad listless state , and made my son James play at drafts with me the whole day , by which I was quite stufified ' ( presumably ' stupefied ' ) . March 1794. Boswell vainly writes to Dundas asking to be sent to Corsica as ...
Was in a sad listless state , and made my son James play at drafts with me the whole day , by which I was quite stufified ' ( presumably ' stupefied ' ) . March 1794. Boswell vainly writes to Dundas asking to be sent to Corsica as ...
Pagina 274
This dramatic effect is further heightened by the skill with which the other characters of Johnson's circle are made to play their parts , without ever masking the dominance of the great protagonist . There are moments when they remind ...
This dramatic effect is further heightened by the skill with which the other characters of Johnson's circle are made to play their parts , without ever masking the dominance of the great protagonist . There are moments when they remind ...
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