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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... faithful record of the situa tion ; we seem to hear the great sage rolling forth his full periods ; we see his follower recording ; and it must have been an obtuse sense which could not see that the removal PROPOSALS . XV.
... faithful record of the situa tion ; we seem to hear the great sage rolling forth his full periods ; we see his follower recording ; and it must have been an obtuse sense which could not see that the removal PROPOSALS . XV.
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... tion for the arrangement of the present edition . The fact is Mr. Boswell really left his work incomplete . A glance at his second and last edition will show this , in which various " additional com- munications , " such as the letters ...
... tion for the arrangement of the present edition . The fact is Mr. Boswell really left his work incomplete . A glance at his second and last edition will show this , in which various " additional com- munications , " such as the letters ...
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... tion of having before him the original text of Boswell's first edition , exactly as it was printed - with the old spelling , punctuation , para- graphs and without any of the shapings and polishings which have been found necessary to ...
... tion of having before him the original text of Boswell's first edition , exactly as it was printed - with the old spelling , punctuation , para- graphs and without any of the shapings and polishings which have been found necessary to ...
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... tion which has adhered to the sides and bottom of Mr. Boswell's fine vessel , and has certainly impeded its sailing powers . Thus the biographies , years of birth and death , of numberless obscure indi- viduals , or of writers quoted in ...
... tion which has adhered to the sides and bottom of Mr. Boswell's fine vessel , and has certainly impeded its sailing powers . Thus the biographies , years of birth and death , of numberless obscure indi- viduals , or of writers quoted in ...
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... tion of this hostility may , perhaps , be found in some marginalia of Baretti , written on a copy of Mrs. Piozzi's letters , now in the British Museum : " Poor Mason has much abused Johnson since his death , for the great reason that ...
... tion of this hostility may , perhaps , be found in some marginalia of Baretti , written on a copy of Mrs. Piozzi's letters , now in the British Museum : " Poor Mason has much abused Johnson since his death , for the great reason that ...
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