Dr. Johnson & Mr. BoswellCoward-McCann, 1929 - 265 pages |
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Page 95
... Hawkins fails to come up to the opportunities extended to him by his ac- quaintance with Johnson . Boswell sometimes exhausted the patience of Johnson in attempting to exhaust the opportunities for Johnsoniana . Hawkins can do little ...
... Hawkins fails to come up to the opportunities extended to him by his ac- quaintance with Johnson . Boswell sometimes exhausted the patience of Johnson in attempting to exhaust the opportunities for Johnsoniana . Hawkins can do little ...
Page 115
... Hawkins . Hawkins refers more than once to Johnson as mentally torpid and physically indolent and that he lacked the resources of the imaginative faculty with which to combat disease and melan- choly . The point is that Hawkins left ...
... Hawkins . Hawkins refers more than once to Johnson as mentally torpid and physically indolent and that he lacked the resources of the imaginative faculty with which to combat disease and melan- choly . The point is that Hawkins left ...
Page 171
... Hawkins also tells us that after the adjournment of the Ivy Lane Club , so unwilling was Johnson to go to his lodgings , that he would walk the streets and talk with the " miserable females " he met , asking them about their course of ...
... Hawkins also tells us that after the adjournment of the Ivy Lane Club , so unwilling was Johnson to go to his lodgings , that he would walk the streets and talk with the " miserable females " he met , asking them about their course of ...
Contents
courtships and amoursCorsica and Paolireturn to England | 27 |
Boswells social service to JohnsonJohnson as comic char | 77 |
BarettiLangton BeauclerkThraleJohnson as father of | 127 |
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