| Robert Anderson - 696 páginas
...obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, your, &c." That the pride of Chesterfield was deeply wounded by this polite, yet disdainful repulse... | |
| Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 páginas
...obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long...most humble, Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. (Boswell, vol. i, pp. 261-3) Chesterfield had treated the subject of independence lighdy in the anonymous... | |
| Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 páginas
...conclude it, if less be possible, with less, for l have long awakened from that dream of hope in which 1 once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord,...Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, Sam Johnson. Variety is a means of avoiding dull writing. Dullness in writing may be caused by many things. lf the... | |
| Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 páginas
...obligation to any favourer of Learning I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less, for I have been long...Your Lordship's Most humble, most obedient Servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON4 The signature applies the finishing touch to Chesterfield and his pretensions. Yet... | |
| Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 páginas
...obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled...exultation, my Lord, Your Lordship's most humble, and most obedient servant, Sam Johnson. For some years after the appearance of the Dictionary Johnson... | |
| 辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 páginas
...Learning,'30'I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it'3" . if less be possible, with less; or I have been long wakened from that Dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation'j:'? My I>ord, Your Lordship's Most Humble,Most Obedient Servant, Sam:Johnson February7@1755。,,,... | |
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