The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan, 1912 |
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... hands . The fourth edition , which followed in 1804 , was published under his own supervision , with some fresh additions of letters and notes distinguished as before from Boswell's own work . From this text the present edition has been ...
... hands . The fourth edition , which followed in 1804 , was published under his own supervision , with some fresh additions of letters and notes distinguished as before from Boswell's own work . From this text the present edition has been ...
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... hands and knees to take a view of the kennel , before he ventured to step over it . His schoolmistress , afraid that he might miss his way , or fall into the kennel , or be run over by a cart , followed him at some distance . He ...
... hands and knees to take a view of the kennel , before he ventured to step over it . His schoolmistress , afraid that he might miss his way , or fall into the kennel , or be run over by a cart , followed him at some distance . He ...
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... were blasted by the thunder stroke , And left - hand crows , from an old hollow oak , Foretold the coming evil by their dismal croak . HIS EARLY COMPOSITIONS Translation of HORACE . Book I. Ode 22 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
... were blasted by the thunder stroke , And left - hand crows , from an old hollow oak , Foretold the coming evil by their dismal croak . HIS EARLY COMPOSITIONS Translation of HORACE . Book I. Ode 22 BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.
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... hand May I lie slain , and spurn the bloody sand . To a YOUNG LADY on her Birth - day.1 THIS tributary verse receive , my fair , Warm with an ardent lover's fondest prayer . May this returning day for ever find Thy form more lovely ...
... hand May I lie slain , and spurn the bloody sand . To a YOUNG LADY on her Birth - day.1 THIS tributary verse receive , my fair , Warm with an ardent lover's fondest prayer . May this returning day for ever find Thy form more lovely ...
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... hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me , I was the best quali- fied for the University that he had ever known come there . " In estimating the progress of his mind ...
... hands by their tutors ; so that when I came to Oxford , Dr. Adams , now master of Pembroke College , told me , I was the best quali- fied for the University that he had ever known come there . " In estimating the progress of his mind ...
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