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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... reason . A more favourable opportunity may come . I have in hand a Selection of the Wit and Wisdom of Dr. Johnson . I purpose , moreover , to collect and edit all of his letters that are not in the Life . Some hundreds of these were ...
... reason . A more favourable opportunity may come . I have in hand a Selection of the Wit and Wisdom of Dr. Johnson . I purpose , moreover , to collect and edit all of his letters that are not in the Life . Some hundreds of these were ...
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... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it ...
... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it ...
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... reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruction or delight , Plutarch's Life of Alexander , Langhorne's Translation . BOSWELL . 2 In the original , revolving some- thing . 3 In the ...
... reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruction or delight , Plutarch's Life of Alexander , Langhorne's Translation . BOSWELL . 2 In the original , revolving some- thing . 3 In the ...
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... reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . ' In all such investigations it is certainly ...
... reason to doubt . For , there is no instance of any man , whose history has been minutely related , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . ' In all such investigations it is certainly ...
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... reason that Boswell said that Johnson should have been taken to Rome ; though indeed it was not till some years after he was touched ' by Queen Anne that the Pretender dwelt there . The Hanoverian kings never touched . ' The service for ...
... reason that Boswell said that Johnson should have been taken to Rome ; though indeed it was not till some years after he was touched ' by Queen Anne that the Pretender dwelt there . The Hanoverian kings never touched . ' The service for ...
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