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Page viii
... Wishes ; and Boswell dwells effusively on the " fervid rapidity " with which that performance was produced . " I have heard him say , that he com- posed seventy lines of it in one day , without putting one of them upon paper till they ...
... Wishes ; and Boswell dwells effusively on the " fervid rapidity " with which that performance was produced . " I have heard him say , that he com- posed seventy lines of it in one day , without putting one of them upon paper till they ...
Page ix
... Wishes , the Rambler , the essays for Hawkesworth's Adventurer , the Dictionary , the Idler , and the proposals for Shakes- peare . Hence , too , he dispatched that epistle to Chesterfield , which is still the pride of independent men ...
... Wishes , the Rambler , the essays for Hawkesworth's Adventurer , the Dictionary , the Idler , and the proposals for Shakes- peare . Hence , too , he dispatched that epistle to Chesterfield , which is still the pride of independent men ...
Page xvii
... Wishes . With another of the proprietors of the Dictionary , Andrew Millar , " over - against St. Clement's Church , in the Strand " ( No. 141 ) , he must also have been on dining terms . " I respect Millar , Sir ; he has raised the ...
... Wishes . With another of the proprietors of the Dictionary , Andrew Millar , " over - against St. Clement's Church , in the Strand " ( No. 141 ) , he must also have been on dining terms . " I respect Millar , Sir ; he has raised the ...
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... sometimes 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.
... sometimes 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.
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James Boswell Arnold Glover. xxxii After my death I wish no other herald , No other speaker of my living actions , To keep mine honour from corruption , But such an honest chronicler as Griffith . SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . 1 See Dr ...
James Boswell Arnold Glover. xxxii After my death I wish no other herald , No other speaker of my living actions , To keep mine honour from corruption , But such an honest chronicler as Griffith . SHAKSPEARE , Henry VIII . 1 See Dr ...
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