Dr. Johnson & Mr. BoswellCoward-McCann, 1929 - 265 pages |
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Page 44
... Westminster Abbey . Eleven years elapsed before Boswell was to join his friend and a good deal of that time was devoted to his great book . It would have been a sufficiently creative achievement to have written the " Life , " but ...
... Westminster Abbey . Eleven years elapsed before Boswell was to join his friend and a good deal of that time was devoted to his great book . It would have been a sufficiently creative achievement to have written the " Life , " but ...
Page 74
... Westminster Abbey but four years , six years after the world premiere of The Messiah in the chapel of good - hearted Cap- tain Coram's Foundling Hospital . Bolingroke , one of the ornaments of the preceding literary reign , had been ...
... Westminster Abbey but four years , six years after the world premiere of The Messiah in the chapel of good - hearted Cap- tain Coram's Foundling Hospital . Bolingroke , one of the ornaments of the preceding literary reign , had been ...
Page 139
... Westminster Abbey . It occurred to some friends and acquaintances of Goldsmith , gathered at dinner at Reynolds's , that some changes might be made , including the rewriting of the epitaph into English . " But , " as Sir William Forbes ...
... Westminster Abbey . It occurred to some friends and acquaintances of Goldsmith , gathered at dinner at Reynolds's , that some changes might be made , including the rewriting of the epitaph into English . " But , " as Sir William Forbes ...
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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