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... Miss Graham - Middlesex Election - House of Commons -Whitefield - Infidels - Johnson's Aversion to visiting Ireland - The Ambassador and " The Rambler " -Boswell leaves London for Chester - Correspondence- Boswell's numerous Visits at ...
... Miss Graham - Middlesex Election - House of Commons -Whitefield - Infidels - Johnson's Aversion to visiting Ireland - The Ambassador and " The Rambler " -Boswell leaves London for Chester - Correspondence- Boswell's numerous Visits at ...
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... MISS REYNOLDS , FROM A PAINTING BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ALLAN RAMSAY , FROM A PRINT · · . MRS . RUDD , FROM A CONTEMPORARY PRINT IN " THE TOWN AND COUNTRY MAGAZINE " JOHNSON AT WARLEY CAMP • • SIR JOSEPH BANKS , FROM A PAINTING BY J ...
... MISS REYNOLDS , FROM A PAINTING BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ALLAN RAMSAY , FROM A PRINT · · . MRS . RUDD , FROM A CONTEMPORARY PRINT IN " THE TOWN AND COUNTRY MAGAZINE " JOHNSON AT WARLEY CAMP • • SIR JOSEPH BANKS , FROM A PAINTING BY J ...
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... Miss Thrale , and Signor Baretti , their Italian master , to Bath . This was not showing the attention which might have been expected to the " guide , philosopher , and friend " —the Imlac who had hastened from the country to console ...
... Miss Thrale , and Signor Baretti , their Italian master , to Bath . This was not showing the attention which might have been expected to the " guide , philosopher , and friend " —the Imlac who had hastened from the country to console ...
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... Miss Reynolds has a mind to send the Epitaph to Dr. Beattie ; I am very willing , but having no copy cannot immediately recollect it . She tells me you have lost it . Try to recollect , and put down as much as you retain ; you perhaps ...
... Miss Reynolds has a mind to send the Epitaph to Dr. Beattie ; I am very willing , but having no copy cannot immediately recollect it . She tells me you have lost it . Try to recollect , and put down as much as you retain ; you perhaps ...
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... Miss Caulfield , but that her letter is not at hand , and I know not the direction . tell the good news . I am Sir , your most , & c . , " SAM . JOHNSON . " 2 Ibid . , p . 158 . 1 " Prayers and Meditations , " p . 155. - BosWELL . 3 The ...
... Miss Caulfield , but that her letter is not at hand , and I know not the direction . tell the good news . I am Sir , your most , & c . , " SAM . JOHNSON . " 2 Ibid . , p . 158 . 1 " Prayers and Meditations , " p . 155. - BosWELL . 3 The ...
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