Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... asked by the Head - master to dine at the Fellows ' table , and made a creditable figure . I certainly have the art of making the most of what I have . How should one who has had only a Scotch education be quite ' Your 16 Johnson's ...
... asked by the Head - master to dine at the Fellows ' table , and made a creditable figure . I certainly have the art of making the most of what I have . How should one who has had only a Scotch education be quite ' Your 16 Johnson's ...
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... asked to have his lemonade made sweeter ; upon which the waiter , with his greasy fingers , lifted a lump of sugar , and put it into it . The Doctor , in indignation , threw it out of the window . Scott said , he was afraid he would ...
... asked to have his lemonade made sweeter ; upon which the waiter , with his greasy fingers , lifted a lump of sugar , and put it into it . The Doctor , in indignation , threw it out of the window . Scott said , he was afraid he would ...
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... asking my father why he had not prepared us for such uncouth , un- toward strangeness , he laughed heartily , and said he had entirely forgotten that the same impression had been at first made upon him- self ; but had been lost even on ...
... asking my father why he had not prepared us for such uncouth , un- toward strangeness , he laughed heartily , and said he had entirely forgotten that the same impression had been at first made upon him- self ; but had been lost even on ...
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... asked him , ' Would you not , Sir , start as Mr. Garrick does , if you saw a ghost ? ' He answered , ' I hope not . If I did , I should frighten the ghost . ' MONDAY , AUGUST 16 . We talked of Dr. William Robertson came to breakfast ...
... asked him , ' Would you not , Sir , start as Mr. Garrick does , if you saw a ghost ? ' He answered , ' I hope not . If I did , I should frighten the ghost . ' MONDAY , AUGUST 16 . We talked of Dr. William Robertson came to breakfast ...
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... that ' Boswell was the best travelling companion in the world . ' Ante , iii . 294. Mr. Croker says ( Croker's Boswell , p . 280 ) : - ' I asked Lord Stowell in what estimation he Dr. Johnson August 18. ] Johnson's Diary of his own Life .
... that ' Boswell was the best travelling companion in the world . ' Ante , iii . 294. Mr. Croker says ( Croker's Boswell , p . 280 ) : - ' I asked Lord Stowell in what estimation he Dr. Johnson August 18. ] Johnson's Diary of his own Life .
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