The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Heritage Press, 1963 - Authors, English |
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... conversation is some sort of happy accident and that this record is artless , little more than some sort of naïve , naturalistic reporting . Johnson died in December 1784. In September 1785 , Boswell published his Journal of a Tour to ...
... conversation is some sort of happy accident and that this record is artless , little more than some sort of naïve , naturalistic reporting . Johnson died in December 1784. In September 1785 , Boswell published his Journal of a Tour to ...
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... conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgement of mankind , to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of ...
... conversation of a celebrated man , if his talents have been exerted in conversation , will best display his character , is , I trust , too well established in the judgement of mankind , to be at all shaken by a sneering observation of ...
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... conversation etc. ( said he , ) the conversation overflowed , and drowned him . " [ H ] ' His philosophy , though austere and solemn , was by no means morose and cynical , and never blunted the laudable sensibilities of his character ...
... conversation etc. ( said he , ) the conversation overflowed , and drowned him . " [ H ] ' His philosophy , though austere and solemn , was by no means morose and cynical , and never blunted the laudable sensibilities of his character ...
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