The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Heritage Press, 1963 |
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... Boswell ! I love you very much . " Now , Temple , can I help indulging vanity ? ' The friendship developed . When Boswell left England for Holland , Johnson , whom he had first met less than three months before , made a two - day stage ...
... Boswell ! I love you very much . " Now , Temple , can I help indulging vanity ? ' The friendship developed . When Boswell left England for Holland , Johnson , whom he had first met less than three months before , made a two - day stage ...
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James Boswell Hester Lynch Piozzi, Edward Garland Fletcher. to withdraw from a conversation and so miss something Johnson might say . Fanny Burney has described , with exaggeration , Boswell's attentive listening : ' He leant his ear ...
James Boswell Hester Lynch Piozzi, Edward Garland Fletcher. to withdraw from a conversation and so miss something Johnson might say . Fanny Burney has described , with exaggeration , Boswell's attentive listening : ' He leant his ear ...
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... Boswell - that from what Boswell managed to find out about a man who would other- wise have been an obscure and mediocre background - figure in the literary and subliterary life of the period , Boswell created a colossus , and persuaded ...
... Boswell - that from what Boswell managed to find out about a man who would other- wise have been an obscure and mediocre background - figure in the literary and subliterary life of the period , Boswell created a colossus , and persuaded ...
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