Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... passage is of his writing ( see ante , i . 361 ) . He says : - ' It cannot but offend every Englishman to see troops of soldiers placed between him and his sovereign , as if they were the most honourable of the people , or the King ...
... passage is of his writing ( see ante , i . 361 ) . He says : - ' It cannot but offend every Englishman to see troops of soldiers placed between him and his sovereign , as if they were the most honourable of the people , or the King ...
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... passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to quote : ' The Juries of England are Judges of law as well as of fact , in many civil , and in all criminal trials . That my principles of ...
... passage , which , as a concise , and I hope a fair and rational state of the matter , I presume to quote : ' The Juries of England are Judges of law as well as of fact , in many civil , and in all criminal trials . That my principles of ...
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... passages that I heard Johnson repeat : it stamps a value on them . He told us , that the book entitled The Lives of the Poets , by Mr. Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotch- man , one of his amanuenses . The bookseller ...
... passages that I heard Johnson repeat : it stamps a value on them . He told us , that the book entitled The Lives of the Poets , by Mr. Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels , a Scotch- man , one of his amanuenses . The bookseller ...
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... passage , as I should think myself very culpable not to subjoin . " This account is very inaccurate . The following statement of facts we know to be true , in every material circumstance : -Shiels was the prin- cipal collector and ...
... passage , as I should think myself very culpable not to subjoin . " This account is very inaccurate . The following statement of facts we know to be true , in every material circumstance : -Shiels was the prin- cipal collector and ...
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... passage quoted by Boswell was , no doubt , written by his direction . D'Israeli ( Curiosities of Literature , ed . 1834 , vi . 375 ) says that Oldys ( ante , i . 175 ) made annotations on a copy of Langbaine's Dramatic Poets . ' This ...
... passage quoted by Boswell was , no doubt , written by his direction . D'Israeli ( Curiosities of Literature , ed . 1834 , vi . 375 ) says that Oldys ( ante , i . 175 ) made annotations on a copy of Langbaine's Dramatic Poets . ' This ...
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