The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... not much 1 Boswell himself suffered , or affected to suffer , from it , and wrote a series of essays in The London Magazine under the title of " The Hypochondriac . " think against it ; and this lasted till I went HIS RELIGION ...
... not much 1 Boswell himself suffered , or affected to suffer , from it , and wrote a series of essays in The London Magazine under the title of " The Hypochondriac . " think against it ; and this lasted till I went HIS RELIGION ...
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... ( Essay on Dr. Johnson ) doubted whether he had ever read any book through but the Bible . Mrs. Piozzi relates that he once asked if there were any book " Written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers excepting Don Quixote ...
... ( Essay on Dr. Johnson ) doubted whether he had ever read any book through but the Bible . Mrs. Piozzi relates that he once asked if there were any book " Written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers excepting Don Quixote ...
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... Essay printed in the newspaper , of which Warren was proprietor . After very diligent inquiry , I have not been able to recover those early specimens of that particular mode of writing 1 See Gent . Mag . , Dec. 1784 , p . 957. B. by ...
... Essay printed in the newspaper , of which Warren was proprietor . After very diligent inquiry , I have not been able to recover those early specimens of that particular mode of writing 1 See Gent . Mag . , Dec. 1784 , p . 957. B. by ...
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... the Royal Society in 1669. The French translation by the Abbé Legrand , from which Johnson's abridgment was made , was published at Paris in 1728 . FIRST ESSAYS IN LITERATURE 49 wanted ; but his constitutional 48 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... the Royal Society in 1669. The French translation by the Abbé Legrand , from which Johnson's abridgment was made , was published at Paris in 1728 . FIRST ESSAYS IN LITERATURE 49 wanted ; but his constitutional 48 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
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James Boswell. FIRST ESSAYS IN LITERATURE 49 wanted ; but his constitutional indolence soon prevailed , and the work was at a stand . Mr. Hector , who knew that a motive of humanity would be the most prevailing ... ESSAYS IN LITERATURE ...
James Boswell. FIRST ESSAYS IN LITERATURE 49 wanted ; but his constitutional indolence soon prevailed , and the work was at a stand . Mr. Hector , who knew that a motive of humanity would be the most prevailing ... ESSAYS IN LITERATURE ...
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