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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Stran xviii
... pleased at finding at the end of my long note on Johnson's wine - drinking that I have been obliged to show that he thought that the gout from which he suffered was due to his temperance . I hope you persevere in drinking , ' he wrote ...
... pleased at finding at the end of my long note on Johnson's wine - drinking that I have been obliged to show that he thought that the gout from which he suffered was due to his temperance . I hope you persevere in drinking , ' he wrote ...
Stran xxiv
... pleased , perhaps would even have been proud , could he have foreseen this edition . Few distinctions he valued more highly than those which he received from his own great University . The honorary degrees that it conferred on him , the ...
... pleased , perhaps would even have been proud , could he have foreseen this edition . Few distinctions he valued more highly than those which he received from his own great University . The honorary degrees that it conferred on him , the ...
Stran xxvi
... pleased , to draw on his extensive knowledge of the history and the literature . of the eighteenth century . Mr. C. G. Crump , B.A. , of Balliol College , Oxford , has traced for me not a few of the quota- tions which had baffled my ...
... pleased , to draw on his extensive knowledge of the history and the literature . of the eighteenth century . Mr. C. G. Crump , B.A. , of Balliol College , Oxford , has traced for me not a few of the quota- tions which had baffled my ...
Stran 2
... pleased to welcome me , -for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes canæque Deûm1 , which I have enjoyed under your roof2 . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject ...
... pleased to welcome me , -for the number of valuable acquaintances to whom you have introduced me , -for the noctes canæque Deûm1 , which I have enjoyed under your roof2 . If a work should be inscribed to one who is master of the subject ...
Stran 7
... pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my ...
... pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my friend Mr. Malone , who was so good as to allow me to read to him almost the whole of my ...
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