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by a common friend , to know whether that Yet while we admire the poetical excel- could be granted him as a favour from the lence of this poem , candour obliges us to university of Oxford . But though he had allow , that the flame of ...
by a common friend , to know whether that Yet while we admire the poetical excel- could be granted him as a favour from the lence of this poem , candour obliges us to university of Oxford . But though he had allow , that the flame of ...
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I beg you will do so as soon as you can for At the same time that Mr. Garrick favour- me , because the month is far advanced . ” ed me with this anecdote , he repeated a And 15th July , 1737 , very pointed epigram by Johnson , on George ...
I beg you will do so as soon as you can for At the same time that Mr. Garrick favour- me , because the month is far advanced . ” ed me with this anecdote , he repeated a And 15th July , 1737 , very pointed epigram by Johnson , on George ...
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The favour which I beg is , my answer I intended to show any neglect that if you do not like them , you will say of the ... —The part of your Dictionary sibly the distinction you have bestowed which you have favoured me with the sight ...
The favour which I beg is , my answer I intended to show any neglect that if you do not like them , you will say of the ... —The part of your Dictionary sibly the distinction you have bestowed which you have favoured me with the sight ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1 The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, John Wilson Croker |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 22 May 2019 |
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