Boswell's Life of JohnsonG. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 298 pages |
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... showed that a man who has risen in the world must not be condemned too harshly for being distant to former acquaintance , even though he may have been much obliged to them . It is , no doubt , to be wished that a proper degree of ...
... showed that a man who has risen in the world must not be condemned too harshly for being distant to former acquaintance , even though he may have been much obliged to them . It is , no doubt , to be wished that a proper degree of ...
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... showed him , as a curiosity which I had discovered , his " Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , " which Sir John Pringle had lent me , it being then little known as one of his works . He said , " Take no notice of it , " or ...
... showed him , as a curiosity which I had discovered , his " Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , " which Sir John Pringle had lent me , it being then little known as one of his works . He said , " Take no notice of it , " or ...
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... showed both that a journal of his Tour upon the Continent was not wholly out of his con- templation , and that he uniformly adhered to that strange opinion which his indolent disposition made him utter : " No man but a block- head ever ...
... showed both that a journal of his Tour upon the Continent was not wholly out of his con- templation , and that he uniformly adhered to that strange opinion which his indolent disposition made him utter : " No man but a block- head ever ...
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... showed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved portrait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the Scriveners ' Company . I visited him October ...
... showed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved portrait of him by Pether , from a picture by Fry , which hangs in the hall of the Scriveners ' Company . I visited him October ...
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... showed me an ode of his own , with an absurd couplet making a linnet soar on an eagle's wing . I told him , that when the ancients made a simile , they always made it like something real . ” ear . 66 Mr. Wilkes remarked , that " among ...
... showed me an ode of his own , with an absurd couplet making a linnet soar on an eagle's wing . I told him , that when the ancients made a simile , they always made it like something real . ” ear . 66 Mr. Wilkes remarked , that " among ...
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