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... genius Dr. Hill indeed yields not even to Boswell ..... I cannot take leave of him without expressing the obligations I owe to him , and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press , for their courtesy in permitting me the free use of these ...
... genius Dr. Hill indeed yields not even to Boswell ..... I cannot take leave of him without expressing the obligations I owe to him , and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press , for their courtesy in permitting me the free use of these ...
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... genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of ...
... genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions to my Collection are highly estimable ; and as he had a true relish of my " Tour to the Hebrides , " I trust I should now have been gratified with a larger share of ...
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... genius will to the end of time be by his writings preserved in admiration . 1 The ( third ) Earl and Countess of Jersey . 2 Plutarch's Life of Alexander , init . - Langhorne's translation . B. THE DUTIES OF A BIOGRAPHER 7 " There are ...
... genius will to the end of time be by his writings preserved in admiration . 1 The ( third ) Earl and Countess of Jersey . 2 Plutarch's Life of Alexander , init . - Langhorne's translation . B. THE DUTIES OF A BIOGRAPHER 7 " There are ...
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... parson in Hogarth's Modern Midnight Conversation . See also Lives of the Poets , ( " Fenton . " ) 2 As was likewise the Bishop of Dromore many years after- ward . B. of his poetical genius , both in his school exercises HIS SCHOOL-DAYS ...
... parson in Hogarth's Modern Midnight Conversation . See also Lives of the Poets , ( " Fenton . " ) 2 As was likewise the Bishop of Dromore many years after- ward . B. of his poetical genius , both in his school exercises HIS SCHOOL-DAYS ...
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James Boswell. of his poetical genius , both in his school exercises and in other occasional compositions . Of these I have obtained a considerable collection , by the favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters , and of Mr ...
James Boswell. of his poetical genius , both in his school exercises and in other occasional compositions . Of these I have obtained a considerable collection , by the favour of Mr. Wentworth , son of one of his masters , and of Mr ...
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