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But Johnson himself is still further remarkable, not only in being more intimately known to us than most writers, but in gaining, not losing, from that intimacy. Johnson impresses us by what he is, but still more by what he says.
But Johnson himself is still further remarkable, not only in being more intimately known to us than most writers, but in gaining, not losing, from that intimacy. Johnson impresses us by what he is, but still more by what he says.
Pagina 29
Yet it is not merely that Johnson was himself remarkable ; it is hardly less remarkable that we seem to know him so intimately . Horace Walpole , I think , wrote far better letters even than John- son's ; yet with Walpole we cannot feel ...
Yet it is not merely that Johnson was himself remarkable ; it is hardly less remarkable that we seem to know him so intimately . Horace Walpole , I think , wrote far better letters even than John- son's ; yet with Walpole we cannot feel ...
Pagina 179
... we have been told , for an introduction to Tom Paine ' ( but is it not a little bigoted in Macaulay himself to imply that a Tory and High Churchman should spurn the chance of meeting a character so remarkable as Tom Paine ? ) ...
... we have been told , for an introduction to Tom Paine ' ( but is it not a little bigoted in Macaulay himself to imply that a Tory and High Churchman should spurn the chance of meeting a character so remarkable as Tom Paine ? ) ...
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