The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2Bickers and Son, 1874 - Authors, English |
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... conversation.2 But I found that he had not listened to him with that full confidence , without which there is little satis- faction in the society of travellers . I was curious to hear what opinion so able a judge as Johnson had formed ...
... conversation.2 But I found that he had not listened to him with that full confidence , without which there is little satis- faction in the society of travellers . I was curious to hear what opinion so able a judge as Johnson had formed ...
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... conversation was interest- ing and characteristic . This proves that ⚫ Boswell was fitful in his task of reporter , and sometimes allowed as much to escape him as he secured . " The Doctor when I came in had an answer , titled Taxation ...
... conversation was interest- ing and characteristic . This proves that ⚫ Boswell was fitful in his task of reporter , and sometimes allowed as much to escape him as he secured . " The Doctor when I came in had an answer , titled Taxation ...
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... conversation contains the whole of what- was said by Johnson , or other eminent persons who lived with him . What I have preserved , however , has the value of the most perfect authenticity . He this day enlarged upon Pope's melancholy ...
... conversation contains the whole of what- was said by Johnson , or other eminent persons who lived with him . What I have preserved , however , has the value of the most perfect authenticity . He this day enlarged upon Pope's melancholy ...
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... conversation on the fulness of his fame , which had gone before . ' And , ' says Boswell , I wonder he has not been hung in effigy from the Hebrides to England . ' I shall suffer them to do it corporeally , ' says the Doctor , if they ...
... conversation on the fulness of his fame , which had gone before . ' And , ' says Boswell , I wonder he has not been hung in effigy from the Hebrides to England . ' I shall suffer them to do it corporeally , ' says the Doctor , if they ...
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... conversation for some days appears in my journal , except that when a gentleman told him he had bought a suit of laces for his lady . He said , " Well , Sir , you have done a good thing , and a wise thing . " " I have done a good thing ...
... conversation for some days appears in my journal , except that when a gentleman told him he had bought a suit of laces for his lady . He said , " Well , Sir , you have done a good thing , and a wise thing . " " I have done a good thing ...
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