Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... Horace Walpole says : - ' The bitterest parts of the work were a satire on William III and George I. The most remarkable part of this trial was the Chief Justice Mansfield lay- ing down for law that satires even on dead Kings were ...
... Horace Walpole says : - ' The bitterest parts of the work were a satire on William III and George I. The most remarkable part of this trial was the Chief Justice Mansfield lay- ing down for law that satires even on dead Kings were ...
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... Horace Walpole ( Letters , viii . 150 ) records an anecdote that he had from Hawkins : - ' When Dr. John- son was at his work on his Shake- speare , Sir John said to him , " Well ! Doctor , now you have finished your Dictionary , I ...
... Horace Walpole ( Letters , viii . 150 ) records an anecdote that he had from Hawkins : - ' When Dr. John- son was at his work on his Shake- speare , Sir John said to him , " Well ! Doctor , now you have finished your Dictionary , I ...
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... Horace Walpole , writing of May in this year , says that General Smith , an adventurer from the East Indies , who was taken off by Foote in The Nabob , being excluded from the fashionable club of young men of quality at Almack's , had ...
... Horace Walpole , writing of May in this year , says that General Smith , an adventurer from the East Indies , who was taken off by Foote in The Nabob , being excluded from the fashionable club of young men of quality at Almack's , had ...
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... Horace Walpole ] wan- dered through France into Italy ; and Gray's Letters contain a very pleasing account of many parts of their journey . ' ' The style of Ma- dame de Sévigné , ' wrote Mackintosh ( Life , ii . 221 ) , ' is evidently ...
... Horace Walpole ] wan- dered through France into Italy ; and Gray's Letters contain a very pleasing account of many parts of their journey . ' ' The style of Ma- dame de Sévigné , ' wrote Mackintosh ( Life , ii . 221 ) , ' is evidently ...
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... Horace Walpole writes : - ' The scope of the Critical Review was to decry any work that appeared fa- vourable to the principles of the Revolution . ' Memoirs of the Reign of George II , iii . 260 . 5 The story of this publication is ...
... Horace Walpole writes : - ' The scope of the Critical Review was to decry any work that appeared fa- vourable to the principles of the Revolution . ' Memoirs of the Reign of George II , iii . 260 . 5 The story of this publication is ...
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