The Personal History of Samuel JohnsonLongman, 1971 - 364 pages |
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... London and London life that was to become a passion with him . Never a fastidious man , he could overlook its frequent glimpses of filth and squalor ; never particularly sensitive to smells he could walk its back streets without undue ...
... London and London life that was to become a passion with him . Never a fastidious man , he could overlook its frequent glimpses of filth and squalor ; never particularly sensitive to smells he could walk its back streets without undue ...
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... London , he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford ... the full tide of existence is at Charing Cross . ' Having seen London he was content that he had seen as much of life as the world could show ' . As a ...
... London , he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford ... the full tide of existence is at Charing Cross . ' Having seen London he was content that he had seen as much of life as the world could show ' . As a ...
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... London . In the spring of 1760 , desperately unhappy in his studies of civil law , Boswell ran away , or rather rode away , to London where he was received into the Roman Catholic Church , a fact which his father , and indeed most of ...
... London . In the spring of 1760 , desperately unhappy in his studies of civil law , Boswell ran away , or rather rode away , to London where he was received into the Roman Catholic Church , a fact which his father , and indeed most of ...
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