The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1878 |
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... lived have written biography - Boswell has beaten them all . This book re- sembles nothing so much as the conversation of the inmates of the Palace of Truth . " - No . cxii . 1832 . Quarterly Review . “ Our vivacious neighbours , more ...
... lived have written biography - Boswell has beaten them all . This book re- sembles nothing so much as the conversation of the inmates of the Palace of Truth . " - No . cxii . 1832 . Quarterly Review . “ Our vivacious neighbours , more ...
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... lived together with companionable ease and fami- liarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's char- acter . His being appointed one of his executors ...
... lived together with companionable ease and fami- liarity ; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's char- acter . His being appointed one of his executors ...
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... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton 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 of my ...
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from Bishop Warburton 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 of my ...
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... lived . Had his other friends And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write not his panegyric , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect ...
... lived . Had his other friends And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write not his panegyric , which must be all praise , but his Life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect ...
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... be aware , that his own circle furnishes exceptions to Boswell's remark . 3 Whitehead lived with William , third Earl of Jersey , and Anne Eggerton , his countess . than from a Chinese mandarin on a chimney - piece INTRODUCTION . 29.
... be aware , that his own circle furnishes exceptions to Boswell's remark . 3 Whitehead lived with William , third Earl of Jersey , and Anne Eggerton , his countess . than from a Chinese mandarin on a chimney - piece INTRODUCTION . 29.
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