The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.J.M. Dent and Sons Limited, 1925 |
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Page xxxi
... be disappointed of its gratifications . I am , My dear Sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , London , April 20 , 1791 . JAMES BOSWELL . xxxii After my death I wish no other herald , DEDICATION xxxi.
... be disappointed of its gratifications . I am , My dear Sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , London , April 20 , 1791 . JAMES BOSWELL . xxxii After my death I wish no other herald , DEDICATION xxxi.
Page xxxiii
... obliged to run half over London , in order to fix date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ... oblige every Authour to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with , - " I think I have read ; " —or ...
... obliged to run half over London , in order to fix date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ... oblige every Authour to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with , - " I think I have read ; " —or ...
Page xxxv
... obliging friend . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me ...
... obliging friend . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present Work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me ...
Page xxxviii
... obliged to introduce them in his Second Edition , by way of ADDENDA , as commodiously as he could . In the present edition they have been distributed in their proper places . In revising his volumes for a new edition , he had pointed ...
... obliged to introduce them in his Second Edition , by way of ADDENDA , as commodiously as he could . In the present edition they have been distributed in their proper places . In revising his volumes for a new edition , he had pointed ...
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... obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where there is such a dull , heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages , that it makes their method quite nauseous . But the verbose ...
... obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where there is such a dull , heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages , that it makes their method quite nauseous . But the verbose ...
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