Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776-1780; v.4, 1780-1784)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... Hawkins , Madame Piozzi , and Mr. Boswell have produced their quartos . ' Horace Walpole's Letters , viii . 557 . 2 The delay was in part due to Boswell's dissipation and place - hunt- ing , as is shewn by the following passages in his ...
... Hawkins , Madame Piozzi , and Mr. Boswell have produced their quartos . ' Horace Walpole's Letters , viii . 557 . 2 The delay was in part due to Boswell's dissipation and place - hunt- ing , as is shewn by the following passages in his ...
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... - 2 ' It may be said the death of Dr. Johnson kept the public mind in agi- tation beyond all former example . No literary character ever excited so much attention . ' Murphy's Johnson , p . 3 . The Life by Sir 7. Hawkins . 27 is one is.
... - 2 ' It may be said the death of Dr. Johnson kept the public mind in agi- tation beyond all former example . No literary character ever excited so much attention . ' Murphy's Johnson , p . 3 . The Life by Sir 7. Hawkins . 27 is one is.
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James Boswell George Birkbeck Norman Hill. The Life by Sir 7. Hawkins . 27 is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight ' , a man , whom , during my long intimacy with Dr. Johnson , I never saw in his ...
James Boswell George Birkbeck Norman Hill. The Life by Sir 7. Hawkins . 27 is one compiled for the booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight ' , a man , whom , during my long intimacy with Dr. Johnson , I never saw in his ...
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... Hawkins's ponderous labours , I must acknow- ledge , exhibit a farrago , of which a considerable portion is not devoid of entertainment to the lovers of literary gossiping ; but besides its being swelled out with long unnecessary ...
... Hawkins's ponderous labours , I must acknow- ledge , exhibit a farrago , of which a considerable portion is not devoid of entertainment to the lovers of literary gossiping ; but besides its being swelled out with long unnecessary ...
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... Hawkins , p . 6. BOSWELL . 2 6 ' My father had much vanity which his adversity hindered from being fully exerted . ' Annals , p . 14 . 3 This anecdote of the duck , though disproved by internal and external evidence , has nevertheless ...
... Hawkins , p . 6. BOSWELL . 2 6 ' My father had much vanity which his adversity hindered from being fully exerted . ' Annals , p . 14 . 3 This anecdote of the duck , though disproved by internal and external evidence , has nevertheless ...
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