Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... once launched from the metropolis he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed , I was much obliged . It was ...
... once launched from the metropolis he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed , I was much obliged . It was ...
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... once to me at Wilton , with a happy pleasantry , and some truth , that ' Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extra- ordinary , were it not for his bow- wow way : ' but I admit the truth of this only on some occasions . The Messiah ...
... once to me at Wilton , with a happy pleasantry , and some truth , that ' Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extra- ordinary , were it not for his bow- wow way : ' but I admit the truth of this only on some occasions . The Messiah ...
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... once united me to him . He told me that , before I came in , the Doctor had unluckily had a bad specimen of Scottish cleanliness3 . He 22 Boswell's house in James's court . [ August 14. 21 ' In Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey , i . 157 ...
... once united me to him . He told me that , before I came in , the Doctor had unluckily had a bad specimen of Scottish cleanliness3 . He 22 Boswell's house in James's court . [ August 14. 21 ' In Cockburn's Life of Jeffrey , i . 157 ...
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... once a good companion , and a good christian ; which I think is saying enough . Yet it is but justice to record , that once , when he was in a dangerous illness , he was watched with the anxious apprehension of a general calamity ; day ...
... once a good companion , and a good christian ; which I think is saying enough . Yet it is but justice to record , that once , when he was in a dangerous illness , he was watched with the anxious apprehension of a general calamity ; day ...
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... once made a good joke3 . What I most envy Burke for , 1 Psalms , cxix . 99 . 2 We learn , post , Oct. 29 , that Robertson was cautious in his talk , though we see here that he had much more courage than the pro- fessors of Aberdeen or ...
... once made a good joke3 . What I most envy Burke for , 1 Psalms , cxix . 99 . 2 We learn , post , Oct. 29 , that Robertson was cautious in his talk , though we see here that he had much more courage than the pro- fessors of Aberdeen or ...
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