Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... authour should be obliged to shew some sort of evidence , though he would not require a strict legal proof : but Johnson firmly and resolutely opposed any restraint whatever , as adverse to a free investigation of the characters of ...
... authour should be obliged to shew some sort of evidence , though he would not require a strict legal proof : but Johnson firmly and resolutely opposed any restraint whatever , as adverse to a free investigation of the characters of ...
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... authour of a Hudibrastick ver- sion of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Æneid ; of some poems in Dodsley's Collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to anything . He shewed me a ...
... authour of a Hudibrastick ver- sion of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Æneid ; of some poems in Dodsley's Collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to anything . He shewed me a ...
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... authour of the Dictionary of ancient Geography , came in . He mentioned that he had been forty years absent from Scotland . ' Ah , Boswell ! ( said Johnson , smiling , ) what Johnson's entries at Easter shew this year , and some of the ...
... authour of the Dictionary of ancient Geography , came in . He mentioned that he had been forty years absent from Scotland . ' Ah , Boswell ! ( said Johnson , smiling , ) what Johnson's entries at Easter shew this year , and some of the ...
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... authour might be used in the same manner ; and that it was pleasing to see the variety of an authour's compositions , at different periods . We talked of Flatman's Poems ; and Mrs. Thrale observed , that Pope had partly borrowed from ...
... authour might be used in the same manner ; and that it was pleasing to see the variety of an authour's compositions , at different periods . We talked of Flatman's Poems ; and Mrs. Thrale observed , that Pope had partly borrowed from ...
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... authour ; observing , that ' he was thirty years in preparing his History , and that he employed a man to point it for him ; as if ( laugh- ing ) another man could point his sense better than himself " . See ante , ii . 164 . 2 This ...
... authour ; observing , that ' he was thirty years in preparing his History , and that he employed a man to point it for him ; as if ( laugh- ing ) another man could point his sense better than himself " . See ante , ii . 164 . 2 This ...
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acquaintance Aetat afterwards Anec ante April April 15 Ashbourne asked authour Baretti Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers Boswell's Hebrides Burke Burney called character conversation Croker DEAR SIR death dined dinner Dodd doubt drink edition English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard honour hope Horace Walpole House of Lords humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson wrote kind lady Langton learning Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Mansfield Madam Malone March 20 Memoirs mentioned mind never observed once opinion passage Percy perhaps Piozzi Letters pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope praise publick published Reynolds SAMUEL JOHNSON says Scotland Sept sermon shew Sir Joshua Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talk Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told travelling truth Whig Wilkes wine wish words write