The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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Page viii
... My own contributions are few and unimportant ; what has been selected from others will , I trust , be found to the purpose . [ 1893. ] [ M. M. ] [ COPY OF THE TITLE OF THE ORIGINAL QUARTO Edition viii BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
... My own contributions are few and unimportant ; what has been selected from others will , I trust , be found to the purpose . [ 1893. ] [ M. M. ] [ COPY OF THE TITLE OF THE ORIGINAL QUARTO Edition viii BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Page ix
... ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . Br JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quò fit ut OMNIS ...
... ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED : THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . Br JAMES BOSWELL , Esq . Quò fit ut OMNIS ...
Page xiv
... originals may be examined . I beg leave to express my warmest thanks to those who have been pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my ...
... originals may be examined . I beg leave to express my warmest thanks to those who have been pleased to favour me with communications and advice in the conduct of my Work . But I cannot sufficiently acknowledge my obligations to my ...
Page 7
... original . " 1 I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness on some occasions of my detail of Johnson's conversation , and how happily it is adapted for the petty exercise of ridicule , by men of superficial 1 ...
... original . " 1 I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness on some occasions of my detail of Johnson's conversation , and how happily it is adapted for the petty exercise of ridicule , by men of superficial 1 ...
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... original of the 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 ...
... original of the 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 ...
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