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... and slight blemishes which marked the 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 conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
... and slight blemishes which marked the 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 conversation in an authen- vi DEDICATION .
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During this and the following year he wrote and gave to his much loved friend Dr. Bathurst the papers in the Adventurer , signed T ; acknowl . 1754. Life of Edw . Cave , in the Gentleman's Magazine ; acknowl . 1755.
During this and the following year he wrote and gave to his much loved friend Dr. Bathurst the papers in the Adventurer , signed T ; acknowl . 1754. Life of Edw . Cave , in the Gentleman's Magazine ; acknowl . 1755.
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His being appointed one of his executors gave him an opportunity of taking possession of such fragments b The greatest part of this book was written while sir John Hawkins was alive ; and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to ...
His being appointed one of his executors gave him an opportunity of taking possession of such fragments b The greatest part of this book was written while sir John Hawkins was alive ; and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to ...
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Those blessings , friend , a deity bestow'd , For I shall never think him less than god ; Oft on his altar shall my firstlings lie , Their blood the consecrated stones shall dye : He gave my flocks to graze the flowery meads , And me to ...
Those blessings , friend , a deity bestow'd , For I shall never think him less than god ; Oft on his altar shall my firstlings lie , Their blood the consecrated stones shall dye : He gave my flocks to graze the flowery meads , And me to ...
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... the fairest face o'ercast , And every beauty withers at the blast : f Some young ladies at Lichfield having proposed to act The Distressed Mo- ther , Johnson wrote this , and gave it to Mr. Hector to convey it privately to them .
... the fairest face o'ercast , And every beauty withers at the blast : f Some young ladies at Lichfield having proposed to act The Distressed Mo- ther , Johnson wrote this , and gave it to Mr. Hector to convey it privately to them .
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2010 |
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