Boswell's Life of JohnsonHumphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 |
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... LITERARY MEN IN GREAT - BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quò fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS.- HORAT . THE THIRD EDITION , REVISED AND AUGMENTED ...
... LITERARY MEN IN GREAT - BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . BY JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quò fit ut OMNIS Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella VITA SENIS.- HORAT . THE THIRD EDITION , REVISED AND AUGMENTED ...
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... literary Colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his con- versation in an authentick and lively manner , which opinion the Publick has ...
... literary Colossus . Your very warm commendation of the specimen which I gave in my Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides , of my being able to preserve his con- versation in an authentick and lively manner , which opinion the Publick has ...
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... literary fame in a decorous style of diffidence . But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I ...
... literary fame in a decorous style of diffidence . But I confess , that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I ...
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... literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published ...
... literary abilities , in which I am not vain enough to compare myself with some great names who have gone before me in this kind of writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published ...
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... have missed , ) of adding agreements to the most agree- able subject in the world , which is literary history 1 . ' ' Nov. 24 , 1737. ' 1 Brit . Mus . 4320 , Ayscough's Catal . , Sloane MSS . 20 NOT A PANEGYRICK , BUT A LIFE Instead of.
... have missed , ) of adding agreements to the most agree- able subject in the world , which is literary history 1 . ' ' Nov. 24 , 1737. ' 1 Brit . Mus . 4320 , Ayscough's Catal . , Sloane MSS . 20 NOT A PANEGYRICK , BUT A LIFE Instead of.
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