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 219
... thing of property in things of this nature . To offer a thing to the publick , and yet pretend a right reserved therein to one's self , if it be not absurd , yet it is sordid . The words we speak ; nay , the breath we emit , are not ...
... thing of property in things of this nature . To offer a thing to the publick , and yet pretend a right reserved therein to one's self , if it be not absurd , yet it is sordid . The words we speak ; nay , the breath we emit , are not ...
Page 322
... thing in Oxford . ' I am printing my new edition of Shakspeare . ' I long to see you all , but cannot conveniently come yet . You might write to me now and then , if you were good for any thing . But honores mutant mores . Professors ...
... thing in Oxford . ' I am printing my new edition of Shakspeare . ' I long to see you all , but cannot conveniently come yet . You might write to me now and then , if you were good for any thing . But honores mutant mores . Professors ...
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... thing for money ; and then there are a number of other superiorities , such as those of birth and fortune , and rank ... thing occasionally , as so much valour and virtue were hibited in it . A fire , says Johnson , might as well be ...
... thing for money ; and then there are a number of other superiorities , such as those of birth and fortune , and rank ... thing occasionally , as so much valour and virtue were hibited in it . A fire , says Johnson , might as well be ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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