Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
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... lines ; but I shall wait to extract the quintessence till Sir John Hawkins , Madame Piozzi , and Mr. Boswell have produced their quartos . ' Horace Walpole's Letters , viii . 557 . The delay was in part due to Boswell's dissipation and ...
... lines ; but I shall wait to extract the quintessence till Sir John Hawkins , Madame Piozzi , and Mr. Boswell have produced their quartos . ' Horace Walpole's Letters , viii . 557 . The delay was in part due to Boswell's dissipation and ...
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... line for a fortnight . ' p . 266. Nov. 28 , 1789 , Malone's hos- pitality , and my other invitations , and particularly my attendance at Lord Lonsdale's , have lost us many evenings . ' Ib . p . 311. June 21 , 1790 , How unfortunate to ...
... line for a fortnight . ' p . 266. Nov. 28 , 1789 , Malone's hos- pitality , and my other invitations , and particularly my attendance at Lord Lonsdale's , have lost us many evenings . ' Ib . p . 311. June 21 , 1790 , How unfortunate to ...
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... line of the law . Dyer knew him well at one time , and the bishop heard him give a character of Hawkins once that painted him in the blackest colours ; though Dyer was by no means apt to deal in such portraits . Dyer said he was a man ...
... line of the law . Dyer knew him well at one time , and the bishop heard him give a character of Hawkins once that painted him in the blackest colours ; though Dyer was by no means apt to deal in such portraits . Dyer said he was a man ...
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... lines a little varied , ' Rod , I will honour thee for this thy duty ' . ' This passage is quoted from Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 24 , 1773 . Mr. Boyd had told Johnson that Lady Errol did not use force or fear in educating her children ...
... lines a little varied , ' Rod , I will honour thee for this thy duty ' . ' This passage is quoted from Boswell's Hebrides , Aug. 24 , 1773 . Mr. Boyd had told Johnson that Lady Errol did not use force or fear in educating her children ...
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... line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diversions his only amusement was in winter , when he took a pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy barefooted , who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him ; no ...
... line . He never joined with the other boys in their ordinary diversions his only amusement was in winter , when he took a pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy barefooted , who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him ; no ...
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