Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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Page xiii
... line of the text or a single note . At length , ' tower- ing in the confidence ' of one who as yet has but set his foot on the threshold of some stately mansion in which he hopes to find for himself a home , I was rash enough more than ...
... line of the text or a single note . At length , ' tower- ing in the confidence ' of one who as yet has but set his foot on the threshold of some stately mansion in which he hopes to find for himself a home , I was rash enough more than ...
Page xvi
... line in a Dictionary of Biography . Over manners too a change has come , and as Johnson justly observes , all works which describe manners require notes . in sixty or seventy years , or less ' . ' But it is not only Bos- well's ...
... line in a Dictionary of Biography . Over manners too a change has come , and as Johnson justly observes , all works which describe manners require notes . in sixty or seventy years , or less ' . ' But it is not only Bos- well's ...
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... lines which Johnson quoted when he saw the Highland girl singing at her wheel ' , and have found out who was one Giffard , ' or rather Gifford , ' a parson , ' is to me a source of just triumph . I have not known many happier hours than ...
... lines which Johnson quoted when he saw the Highland girl singing at her wheel ' , and have found out who was one Giffard , ' or rather Gifford , ' a parson , ' is to me a source of just triumph . I have not known many happier hours than ...
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... line in my Concord- ance and the last line in my six long volumes is Johnson's quotation of Goldsmith's fine saying : ' I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing . ' In the forward ' references in the notes to other passages in the ...
... line in my Concord- ance and the last line in my six long volumes is Johnson's quotation of Goldsmith's fine saying : ' I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing . ' In the forward ' references in the notes to other passages in the ...
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... line ' Unthought of frailties cheat us in the wise , ' ( Moral Essays , i . 69 ) says : - -- For who could imagine that Dr. Clarke valued himself for his agility , and frequently amused himself in a private room of his house in leaping ...
... line ' Unthought of frailties cheat us in the wise , ' ( Moral Essays , i . 69 ) says : - -- For who could imagine that Dr. Clarke valued himself for his agility , and frequently amused himself in a private room of his house in leaping ...
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