Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... seen , at a Blue stocking assembly , a number of ladies sitting round a worthy and tall friend of ours , listening to his literature . ' Ay , ( said he ) like maids round a May - pole . ' I told him , I had found out a perfect ...
... seen , at a Blue stocking assembly , a number of ladies sitting round a worthy and tall friend of ours , listening to his literature . ' Ay , ( said he ) like maids round a May - pole . ' I told him , I had found out a perfect ...
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... seen a ghost , I should have looked in the very same manner , and done just as he did ' . ' For , when I asked him , ' Would you not , Sir , start as Mr. Garrick does , if you saw a ghost ? ' He answered , ' I hope not . If I did , I ...
... seen a ghost , I should have looked in the very same manner , and done just as he did ' . ' For , when I asked him , ' Would you not , Sir , start as Mr. Garrick does , if you saw a ghost ? ' He answered , ' I hope not . If I did , I ...
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... seen many varieties of human life . He had thought more than any body supposed , and had a pretty good stock of general learning and knowledge3 . He had all Dr. John- son's principles , with some degree of relaxation . He had rather too ...
... seen many varieties of human life . He had thought more than any body supposed , and had a pretty good stock of general learning and knowledge3 . He had all Dr. John- son's principles , with some degree of relaxation . He had rather too ...
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... seen them and had read a great deal in them , ' as he owned to Johnson ( ante , under Dec. 9 , 1784 ) , and moreover had , it should seem , copied from them ( ante , i . 251 ) . The ' few fragments ' he had received from Francis Barber ...
... seen them and had read a great deal in them , ' as he owned to Johnson ( ante , under Dec. 9 , 1784 ) , and moreover had , it should seem , copied from them ( ante , i . 251 ) . The ' few fragments ' he had received from Francis Barber ...
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... seen , I believe the view of that Frith and its environs , from the Castle - hill of Edin- burgh , is the finest prospect in Europe . ' Ay , ( said Dr. Johnson , ) that is the state of the world . Water is the same every where . " Una ...
... seen , I believe the view of that Frith and its environs , from the Castle - hill of Edin- burgh , is the finest prospect in Europe . ' Ay , ( said Dr. Johnson , ) that is the state of the world . Water is the same every where . " Una ...
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