The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Bickers and Son, 1874 - Authors, English |
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... reverential feeling , and , above all , is conceived in the spirit of that admirable view of Boswell's work and characte which you gave to the world many years ago . PERCY FITZGERALD . PROPOSALS FOR A 1 NEW EDITION OF MR . BOSWELL'S.
... reverential feeling , and , above all , is conceived in the spirit of that admirable view of Boswell's work and characte which you gave to the world many years ago . PERCY FITZGERALD . PROPOSALS FOR A 1 NEW EDITION OF MR . BOSWELL'S.
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... admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common ...
... admiration of future ages . Your equal and placid temper , your variety of conversation , your true politeness , by which you are so amiable in private society , and that enlarged hospitality which has long made your house a common ...
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... admired him . Yet , luminous as he was upon the whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition , all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm ...
... admired him . Yet , luminous as he was upon the whole , you perceived all the shades which mingled in the grand composition , all the little peculiarities and slight blemishes which marked the literary Colossus . Your very warm ...
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... By October , he and Malone had gone seriously to work ; and in February of the next year the MS . was at last sent to the printer's , though [ ƒ ] admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would ADVERTISEMENT .
... By October , he and Malone had gone seriously to work ; and in February of the next year the MS . was at last sent to the printer's , though [ ƒ ] admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would ADVERTISEMENT .
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... admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has so deservedly obtained , he fulfilled his promise of a long - wished- for visit to his relations in Ireland ; from ...
... admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would accept of no other reward but that fame which he has so deservedly obtained , he fulfilled his promise of a long - wished- for visit to his relations in Ireland ; from ...
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