The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 - Authors, English |
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... lines , at p . 742 a note of twenty - eight lines , with at p . 773 a 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 ...
... lines , at p . 742 a note of twenty - eight lines , with at p . 773 a 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 ...
Page 318
... lines . have written a hundred lines in a day . I remember I wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of human Wishes'in a day . Doctor , ( turning to Goldsmith , ) I am not quite idle ; I made one line t'other day ; but I made no more ...
... lines . have written a hundred lines in a day . I remember I wrote a hundred lines of The Vanity of human Wishes'in a day . Doctor , ( turning to Goldsmith , ) I am not quite idle ; I made one line t'other day ; but I made no more ...
Page 367
... lines of the Dunciad . ' While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines , one of the company ventured to say , " Too fine for such a poem : —a poem on what ? " JOHNSON . ( with a disdainful look , ) " Why , on dunces . It was ...
... lines of the Dunciad . ' While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines , one of the company ventured to say , " Too fine for such a poem : —a poem on what ? " JOHNSON . ( with a disdainful look , ) " Why , on dunces . It was ...
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