Boswell's Life of JohnsonHumphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 |
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... known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged ...
... known to the present , and will continue to be the admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged ...
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... known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford ...
... known Johnson from his early years , and was his friend through life . What reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford ...
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... known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in Ireland . He was a younger son of the ancient family of Congreve , in ...
... known . In the same form with Johnson was Congreve , who afterwards became chaplain to Archbishop Boulter , and by that connection obtained good preferment in Ireland . He was a younger son of the ancient family of Congreve , in ...
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... known at the Univer- sities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me I was the best qualified for the ...
... known at the Univer- sities , where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me I was the best qualified for the ...
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... known , a lady hopes that the following information may not be unacceptable . She remembers Dr. Johnson on a visit to Dr. Taylor , at Ashbourn , some time between the end of the year 37 , and the middle of the year 40 ; she rather ...
... known , a lady hopes that the following information may not be unacceptable . She remembers Dr. Johnson on a visit to Dr. Taylor , at Ashbourn , some time between the end of the year 37 , and the middle of the year 40 ; she rather ...
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