“The” Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J.M. Dent, 1949 |
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James Boswell. But , of course , Macaulay could not know what is now known of Boswell's workmanship , and it remains to add something about the extraordinary discoveries of the last twenty years . Few authors , indeed , have been so ...
James Boswell. But , of course , Macaulay could not know what is now known of Boswell's workmanship , and it remains to add something about the extraordinary discoveries of the last twenty years . Few authors , indeed , have been so ...
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... Boswell's Journals and letters of various dates , his love - letters to many correspondents , full accounts of his ... Boswell's literary executors . Boxes and packets of docu- ments were laid out for Professor Abbott's inspection . At ...
... Boswell's Journals and letters of various dates , his love - letters to many correspondents , full accounts of his ... Boswell's literary executors . Boxes and packets of docu- ments were laid out for Professor Abbott's inspection . At ...
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James Boswell. much else into Boswell's text , with the result that , as Carlyle wrote : " You begin a sentence under Boswell's guidance . . . in the middle starts up one of these Bracket ligatures , and stitches you in from half a page ...
James Boswell. much else into Boswell's text , with the result that , as Carlyle wrote : " You begin a sentence under Boswell's guidance . . . in the middle starts up one of these Bracket ligatures , and stitches you in from half a page ...
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