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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... written by the author , " together with " the letters now introduced , are carefully included within crotchets , that the author may not be answerable for anything which has not the sanction of his approbation . " This wholesome caution ...
... written by the author , " together with " the letters now introduced , are carefully included within crotchets , that the author may not be answerable for anything which has not the sanction of his approbation . " This wholesome caution ...
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... written to him again . " P. 622 , a letter is placed between brackets , as if from the " Reynolds's MSS . , " but it really belongs to Boswell's text . P. 697 , a note of Malone's , beginning " The follow- ing letters , " & c . , is ...
... written to him again . " P. 622 , a letter is placed between brackets , as if from the " Reynolds's MSS . , " but it really belongs to Boswell's text . P. 697 , a note of Malone's , beginning " The follow- ing letters , " & c . , is ...
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... written many years before the " Life , " and was cast in the shape of a diary , while the " Life " was cast in a grave and judicial key , ought to have at once shown that the two works could never have been made to har- monize . This is ...
... written many years before the " Life , " and was cast in the shape of a diary , while the " Life " was cast in a grave and judicial key , ought to have at once shown that the two works could never have been made to har- monize . This is ...
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... writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been ... written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and ...
... writing the lives of others , and who , whether we consider his extraordinary endowments , or his various works , has been ... written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and ...
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... writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most ... written while Sir John Hawkins was alive , and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to make him feel some ...
... writing . Since my work was announced , several Lives and Memoirs of Dr. Johnson have been published , the most ... written while Sir John Hawkins was alive , and I avow , that one object of my strictures was to make him feel some ...
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