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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... lived in great intimacy with him 2 . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop War- burton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value ...
... lived in great intimacy with him 2 . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop War- burton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value ...
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... lived in London , there were two sets of people , those who gave the wall , and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I re- turned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was ...
... lived in London , there were two sets of people , those who gave the wall , and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome . When I re- turned to Lichfield , after having been in London , my mother asked me , whether I was ...
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... lived by literature , has lived more indepen- dently than I have done . ' He said he had taken longer time than he needed to have done in composing his Dictionary . He received our compliments upon that great work with com- placency ...
... lived by literature , has lived more indepen- dently than I have done . ' He said he had taken longer time than he needed to have done in composing his Dictionary . He received our compliments upon that great work with com- placency ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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