The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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... attention ; and of these , fortunately , he gave a list to Boswell in his seventieth year , when he was already occupying his last residence , No. 8 , Bolt Court . Before he came to London in March , 1737 , with Garrick and the ...
... attention ; and of these , fortunately , he gave a list to Boswell in his seventieth year , when he was already occupying his last residence , No. 8 , Bolt Court . Before he came to London in March , 1737 , with Garrick and the ...
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... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long ...
... attention by a person of the first eminence in the age in which he lived , whose company has been universally courted , I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a Dedication , when I mention that there has been a long ...
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... attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many ...
... attention with which I have collected and arranged the materials of which these volumes are composed , will hardly be conceived by those who read them with careless facility . The stretch of mind and prompt assiduity by which so many ...
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James Boswell Arnold Glover. course at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion ...
James Boswell Arnold Glover. course at other periods had been collected with the same attention , the whole tenor of what he uttered would have been found equally excellent . His strong , clear , and animated enforcement of religion ...
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... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satis- faction , and the more scrupulous or witty enquirer considers only as topicks of ridicule : Yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so ...
... attention to incidents which the credulous relate with eager satis- faction , and the more scrupulous or witty enquirer considers only as topicks of ridicule : Yet there is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism , so ...
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