Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 556 pages |
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Page 32
... character more than the greatest sieges , or the most important battles ' . ' To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit . ' The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those ...
... character more than the greatest sieges , or the most important battles ' . ' To this may be added the sentiments of the very man whose life I am about to exhibit . ' The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those ...
Page 216
... character of Prospero was , beyond all question , occasioned by Garrick's ostentatious display of furniture and Dresden china . ' Mur- phy's Johnson , p . 144. If Garrick was aimed at , it is surprising that the severity of the satire ...
... character of Prospero was , beyond all question , occasioned by Garrick's ostentatious display of furniture and Dresden china . ' Mur- phy's Johnson , p . 144. If Garrick was aimed at , it is surprising that the severity of the satire ...
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... character as an exhibition of Johnson , Sir David Dalrymple , Lord Hailes , one of the Judges , maintained , with some warmth , that it was not intended as a portrait of Johnson , but of a late noble Lord , distinguished for abstruse ...
... character as an exhibition of Johnson , Sir David Dalrymple , Lord Hailes , one of the Judges , maintained , with some warmth , that it was not intended as a portrait of Johnson , but of a late noble Lord , distinguished for abstruse ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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