The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Nearly Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1 |
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... be disappointed of its gratifications . I am , my dear Sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . London , April 20 , 1791 . JAMES BOSWELL . I AT last deliver to the world xviii DEDICATION .
... be disappointed of its gratifications . I am , my dear Sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL . London , April 20 , 1791 . JAMES BOSWELL . I AT last deliver to the world xviii DEDICATION .
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... obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ... oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with , " I think I have read ...
... obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date correctly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ... oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with , " I think I have read ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 out ...
... 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 out ...
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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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