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 164
... night sometimes in mean houses , which are set open at night to any casual wanderers , sometimes in cel- lars . . . , and sometimes , when he had not money to support even the ex- pences of these receptacles , walked about the streets ...
... night sometimes in mean houses , which are set open at night to any casual wanderers , sometimes in cel- lars . . . , and sometimes , when he had not money to support even the ex- pences of these receptacles , walked about the streets ...
Page 198
... nights at least . It did not indeed become a stock - play , but there was not the least opposition during the representation , except the first night in the last act , where Irene was to be strangled on the stage , which John could not ...
... nights at least . It did not indeed become a stock - play , but there was not the least opposition during the representation , except the first night in the last act , where Irene was to be strangled on the stage , which John could not ...
Page 227
... night first appointed , many inconvenient cir- cumstances happened to disappoint the hopes of success , the managers generously quitted the profits of an- other night , in which the theatre was expected to be fuller . Mr. Samuel Johnson ...
... night first appointed , many inconvenient cir- cumstances happened to disappoint the hopes of success , the managers generously quitted the profits of an- other night , in which the theatre was expected to be fuller . Mr. Samuel Johnson ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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