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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... style of narrative , it was considered as hardly fair to his memory , that his text should not appear pure and unbroken . The division of Boswell's text into chapters , now for the first time adopted , will , the Editors presume , be ...
... style of narrative , it was considered as hardly fair to his memory , that his text should not appear pure and unbroken . The division of Boswell's text into chapters , now for the first time adopted , will , the Editors presume , be ...
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... style , and without ( which seems odd enough ) any palpable imitation of Johnson . But in recording conversa- tions he is unrivalled : that he was eminently accurate in substance , we have the evidence of all his contemporaries ; but he ...
... style , and without ( which seems odd enough ) any palpable imitation of Johnson . But in recording conversa- tions he is unrivalled : that he was eminently accurate in substance , we have the evidence of all his contemporaries ; but he ...
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... style and character of the parties more happily than my friend James Boswell . " - Memoirs , vol . ii . p . 227 . Farrington . & " Of those who were frequently at Sir Joshua Reynolds's parties ; Mr. Bos- well was very acceptable to him ...
... style and character of the parties more happily than my friend James Boswell . " - Memoirs , vol . ii . p . 227 . Farrington . & " Of those who were frequently at Sir Joshua Reynolds's parties ; Mr. Bos- well was very acceptable to him ...
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... Style of Hume - Inequality of Mankind— Constitutional Goodness - Miracles - Acquaintance of Young People - Hard Reading - Mel- ancholy - Mrs . Macaulay - Warton's Essay on Pope - Sir James Macdonald - Projected Tour to the Hebrides ...
... Style of Hume - Inequality of Mankind— Constitutional Goodness - Miracles - Acquaintance of Young People - Hard Reading - Mel- ancholy - Mrs . Macaulay - Warton's Essay on Pope - Sir James Macdonald - Projected Tour to the Hebrides ...
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... worse it proves a book without a life ; for what do we know of Boileau , after all his tedious stuff ? You are the only one ( and I speak it without a compliment ) • that by the vigour of your style and senti zents INTRODUCTION . 27.
... worse it proves a book without a life ; for what do we know of Boileau , after all his tedious stuff ? You are the only one ( and I speak it without a compliment ) • that by the vigour of your style and senti zents INTRODUCTION . 27.
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