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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Page xiii
... passages in Mr. Warton's poem , " & c . , which is wholly omitted , and a quotation from the poem itself substituted . At p . 99 is found a short note signed " Warton , " but which is Mr. Croker's own composition , and the hint for ...
... passages in Mr. Warton's poem , " & c . , which is wholly omitted , and a quotation from the poem itself substituted . At p . 99 is found a short note signed " Warton , " but which is Mr. Croker's own composition , and the hint for ...
Page xiv
... passage from Boswell's controversy with Miss Seward , are introduced into the text . This latter is , however , marked with crotchets . P. 789 , a note brought into the text . P. 539 , a note of thirty - six lines brought into the text ...
... passage from Boswell's controversy with Miss Seward , are introduced into the text . This latter is , however , marked with crotchets . P. 789 , a note brought into the text . P. 539 , a note of thirty - six lines brought into the text ...
Page xv
... passages such as " Dr. Johnson then dictated to me the following argument for the negro " having to be altered to suit the omission . But it is strange that it did not occur to Mr. Croker that there was a special interest connected with ...
... passages such as " Dr. Johnson then dictated to me the following argument for the negro " having to be altered to suit the omission . But it is strange that it did not occur to Mr. Croker that there was a special interest connected with ...
Page xix
... passage sufficiently intel- ligible as regards the purpose for which it was introduced , viz . , to illustrate not ... passages in Johnson's life omitted by Boswell should not , on the same principle , be supplied , or should at most be ...
... passage sufficiently intel- ligible as regards the purpose for which it was introduced , viz . , to illustrate not ... passages in Johnson's life omitted by Boswell should not , on the same principle , be supplied , or should at most be ...
Page xxiv
... passages be different from the former . In my " Tour " I was almost unboundedly open in my communications ; and from my eagerness to display the wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , freely shewed [ b ] to the world its ...
... passages be different from the former . In my " Tour " I was almost unboundedly open in my communications ; and from my eagerness to display the wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , freely shewed [ b ] to the world its ...
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