Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Količina 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... Walpole's Letters , and with pencil in hand and some little hope still in heart , managed to get a few notes taken . Three winters I had to spend on the shores of the Mediterranean . During two of them my malady and my distress allowed ...
... Walpole's Letters , and with pencil in hand and some little hope still in heart , managed to get a few notes taken . Three winters I had to spend on the shores of the Mediterranean . During two of them my malady and my distress allowed ...
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... Walpole , on June 20 , 1785 , ' though he is going to have as many lives as a cat , might be reduced to four lines ; but I shall wait to extract the quintessence till Sir John Hawkins , Madame Piozzi , and Mr. Boswell have produced ...
... Walpole , on June 20 , 1785 , ' though he is going to have as many lives as a cat , might be reduced to four lines ; but I shall wait to extract the quintessence till Sir John Hawkins , Madame Piozzi , and Mr. Boswell have produced ...
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... Walpole's Letters , vii . 326. See post , Sept. 1743 . " ' You have fixed the method of biography , and whoever will write a life well must imitate you . ' Horace Walpole to Mason ; Walpole's Letters , vi . 211 . ' I am absolutely ...
... Walpole's Letters , vii . 326. See post , Sept. 1743 . " ' You have fixed the method of biography , and whoever will write a life well must imitate you . ' Horace Walpole to Mason ; Walpole's Letters , vi . 211 . ' I am absolutely ...
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... Walpole , writing of the year 1770 , about libels , says : ' Their excess was shocking , and in nothing more condemnable than in the dangers they brought on the liberty of the press . ' This evil was chiefly due to ' the spirit of the ...
... Walpole , writing of the year 1770 , about libels , says : ' Their excess was shocking , and in nothing more condemnable than in the dangers they brought on the liberty of the press . ' This evil was chiefly due to ' the spirit of the ...
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... Abbey . See Almon's Life of Wilkes , iii . 60 , for Wilkes's account of this club . Horace Walpole ( Letters , i . 92 ) calls Whitehead ' an infamous , but not despicable poet . ' Johnson , Aetat . 29. ] Paul Whitehead . 145 Johnson ,
... Abbey . See Almon's Life of Wilkes , iii . 60 , for Wilkes's account of this club . Horace Walpole ( Letters , i . 92 ) calls Whitehead ' an infamous , but not despicable poet . ' Johnson , Aetat . 29. ] Paul Whitehead . 145 Johnson ,
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