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 xxxiii
... passed on Johnson and Boswell by Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , I described Oxford as it was known to Johnson , and I threw light on more than one important passage in the Life . The following year I edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour ...
... passed on Johnson and Boswell by Lord Macaulay and Mr. Carlyle , I described Oxford as it was known to Johnson , and I threw light on more than one important passage in the Life . The following year I edited Boswell's Journal of a Tour ...
Page 164
... passed the 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 ...
... passed the 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 ...
Page 378
... passed a week on a visit to Capt . Knight , disgusted him terribly . He asked an officer what some place was called , and received for answer , that it was where the loplolly man kept his loplolly a reply he considered , not unjustly ...
... passed a week on a visit to Capt . Knight , disgusted him terribly . He asked an officer what some place was called , and received for answer , that it was where the loplolly man kept his loplolly a reply he considered , not unjustly ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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