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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... told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a bible in that ... told her of my good escape , " We often , " said she , dear mother ! " come off best , when we are most afraid . " She told ...
... told me she could read the black letter , and asked him to borrow for her , from his father , a bible in that ... told her of my good escape , " We often , " said she , dear mother ! " come off best , when we are most afraid . " She told ...
Page 341
... told Murphy so in my hearing , and told us all . ' The second edition ( 26 June ) was freely revised , but it came so closely after the first that , as Prof. O. F. Emerson suggests ( Anglia , xxii . 508 ) , Johnson may well have ...
... told Murphy so in my hearing , and told us all . ' The second edition ( 26 June ) was freely revised , but it came so closely after the first that , as Prof. O. F. Emerson suggests ( Anglia , xxii . 508 ) , Johnson may well have ...
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... told me , that they previously talked with Johnson upon this matter , and that it was perfectly understood by all parties that the pension was merely honorary . Sir Joshua Reynolds told me , that Johnson called on him after his ...
... told me , that they previously talked with Johnson upon this matter , and that it was perfectly understood by all parties that the pension was merely honorary . Sir Joshua Reynolds told me , that Johnson called on him after his ...
Contents
DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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