Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... lines : - For who would leave , unbrib'd , Hibernia's land ? Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away ; But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay . ' prejudice of the woollen manufac ...
... lines : - For who would leave , unbrib'd , Hibernia's land ? Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? There none are swept by sudden fate away ; But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay . ' prejudice of the woollen manufac ...
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... line of the old ballad , Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night : ' And ran him through the fair body 3 ! ' We returned to my house , where there met him , at dinner , the Duchess of Douglas , Sir Adolphus Oughton , Lord Chief Baron , See ...
... line of the old ballad , Johnny Armstrong's Last Good Night : ' And ran him through the fair body 3 ! ' We returned to my house , where there met him , at dinner , the Duchess of Douglas , Sir Adolphus Oughton , Lord Chief Baron , See ...
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... lines in the tenth Satire of Juvenal , according to my alteration , should have run thus : - ' Yet Shore2 could tell- ; And Valiere3 curs'd ! ' The first was a penitent by compulsion , the second by sentiment ; though the truth is ...
... lines in the tenth Satire of Juvenal , according to my alteration , should have run thus : - ' Yet Shore2 could tell- ; And Valiere3 curs'd ! ' The first was a penitent by compulsion , the second by sentiment ; though the truth is ...
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... line ' Mortalibus pror- sus non absit solatium , ' and after ' Hujus enim scripta evolve , ' he added ' Mentemque tantarum rerum capacem corpori caduco super- stitem crede ; which is quite applicable to Dr. Johnson himself . Mr. Murray ...
... line ' Mortalibus pror- sus non absit solatium , ' and after ' Hujus enim scripta evolve , ' he added ' Mentemque tantarum rerum capacem corpori caduco super- stitem crede ; which is quite applicable to Dr. Johnson himself . Mr. Murray ...
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... line : not that young men should not pray , or old men not give counsel , but that every season of life has its proper duties . I have thought of retiring , and have talked of it to a friend ; but I find my vocation is rather to active ...
... line : not that young men should not pray , or old men not give counsel , but that every season of life has its proper duties . I have thought of retiring , and have talked of it to a friend ; but I find my vocation is rather to active ...
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