Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D., 1773McGraw-Hill, 1961 - 520 pages |
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Page 122
... Erse songs , and a bowl of stout punch . I was plagued some- what with the toothache . I had a slight return of that ... Erse ' The remainder of this paragraph was omitted from the published Tour . Bible ; that he had compared the ...
... Erse songs , and a bowl of stout punch . I was plagued some- what with the toothache . I had a slight return of that ... Erse ' The remainder of this paragraph was omitted from the published Tour . Bible ; that he had compared the ...
Page 232
... Erse Bible , confounding Erse with Irish . He said there were Erse manuscripts , thinking modern writings were understood . At least I viewed him now with a most fa- vourable eye , because I saw real goodness of character in him . He ...
... Erse Bible , confounding Erse with Irish . He said there were Erse manuscripts , thinking modern writings were understood . At least I viewed him now with a most fa- vourable eye , because I saw real goodness of character in him . He ...
Page 305
... Erse seemed charmed with the orig- inal . There may perhaps be some choice of expression and some excellence of arrangement that cannot be shown in translation . After we had exhausted the Erse poems , of which Dr. John- son said ...
... Erse seemed charmed with the orig- inal . There may perhaps be some choice of expression and some excellence of arrangement that cannot be shown in translation . After we had exhausted the Erse poems , of which Dr. John- son said ...
Contents
APPENDIX Correspondence between Boswell and Lord Elibank | 405 |
TOPOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT | 452 |
INDEX | 489 |
Copyright | |
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