 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 σελίδες
...events of the career, Johnson imagines another, more worthy story: the man as he might have been. "On a Bulk, in a Cellar, or in a Glass-house among Thieves...assisted the Statesman, whose Ideas of Virtue might have enlightned the Moralist, whose Eloquence might have influenced Senates, and whose Delicacy might have... | |
 | Sam Davis Elliott - 2003 - 318 σελίδες
...as Dr. Johnson observes, possessed "exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations; a man whose remarks on life might have assisted the...statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened a moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates and whose delicacy might have polished courts."... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 σελίδες
...enabled him to have employed in elevated speculations, useful studies, or pleasing conversation. On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house among thieves...senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts. [225] It cannot but be imagined that such necessities might sometimes force him upon disreputable practices;... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 σελίδες
...enabled him to have employed in elevated speculations, useful studies, or pleasing conversation. On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house among thieves...influenced Senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.255 Über diese Diskrepanz zwischen wirklichem und möglichem Leben konstruiert der Biograph... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 σελίδες
...enabled him to have employed in elevated I speculations, useful studies, or pleasing conversation. On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house, among thieves...man whose remarks on life might have assisted the states\ man, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have... | |
 | 1848 - 650 σελίδες
...cellar, or in ¿i glass house among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of the Wanderer, the man whose remarks on life might have assisted...ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist ji whose eloquence might have influenced senates ; and whose delicacy might have polished courts."... | |
 | 1848 - 572 σελίδες
...another particular friend of Johnson, who said of him, "on a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass house among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of the Wanderer, the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman ; whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened... | |
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Wanderer, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations, the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates,... 
