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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... says : ' The attack defeated itself by its very violence , and therefore it did the book no harm what- ever . Between forty and fifty thousand copies have been sold ,. although Macaulay boasted with great glee that he had smashed it ...
... says : ' The attack defeated itself by its very violence , and therefore it did the book no harm what- ever . Between forty and fifty thousand copies have been sold ,. although Macaulay boasted with great glee that he had smashed it ...
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... says : - ' For who could imagine that Dr. Clarke valued himself for his agility , and frequently amused him- self in a private room of his house in leaping over the tables and chairs . ' Warton's Essay on Pope , ii . 125. ' It is a good ...
... says : - ' For who could imagine that Dr. Clarke valued himself for his agility , and frequently amused him- self in a private room of his house in leaping over the tables and chairs . ' Warton's Essay on Pope , ii . 125. ' It is a good ...
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... ( says Dr. Warburton , ) to give you what satisfaction I can in any thing you want to be satisfied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and ...
... ( says Dr. Warburton , ) to give you what satisfaction I can in any thing you want to be satisfied in any subject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and ...
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... says that she was born at Kingsnorton . Kingsnorton is in Worcestershire , and not , as the epitaph says , ' in agro Varvicensi . ' When Johnson a few days before his death burnt his papers , some fragments of his Annals escaped the ...
... says that she was born at Kingsnorton . Kingsnorton is in Worcestershire , and not , as the epitaph says , ' in agro Varvicensi . ' When Johnson a few days before his death burnt his papers , some fragments of his Annals escaped the ...
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... says , ' every day , and used to go different ways , that her assiduity . might not expose her to ridicule . ' 3 In ... says Mr. Wright , quoted by Croker , ' that on March 30 , 1712 , two hundred persons were touched by Queen Anne ...
... says , ' every day , and used to go different ways , that her assiduity . might not expose her to ridicule . ' 3 In ... says Mr. Wright , quoted by Croker , ' that on March 30 , 1712 , two hundred persons were touched by Queen Anne ...
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