The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1John W. Lovell Company, 1899 - Authors, English |
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Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell. Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators , than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly , that t is not worth ...
Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides James Boswell. Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators , than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has distanced all his competitors so decidedly , that t is not worth ...
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... Boswell - Boswell returns to England - Voltaire on Pope and Dryden - Goldsmith's " Tra veller , " and " Deserted Village " -Suppers at the Mitre resumed- " Equal Happiness " — " Courting great Men " -Convents - Second Sight - Corsica ...
... Boswell - Boswell returns to England - Voltaire on Pope and Dryden - Goldsmith's " Tra veller , " and " Deserted Village " -Suppers at the Mitre resumed- " Equal Happiness " — " Courting great Men " -Convents - Second Sight - Corsica ...
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... BOSWELL . " But , Sir , why don't you give us something in some other way ? " GOLDSMITH . " Ay , Sir , we have a claim upon you . " JOHNSON . " No , Sir , I am not obliged to you any more . No man is obliged to do as much as he can do ...
... BOSWELL . " But , Sir , why don't you give us something in some other way ? " GOLDSMITH . " Ay , Sir , we have a claim upon you . " JOHNSON . " No , Sir , I am not obliged to you any more . No man is obliged to do as much as he can do ...
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