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" Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman.... "
The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone - Page 269
by James Boswell - 1821
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.: Together with a Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1900 - 636 pages
...differ as to some point : I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid." Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing...farmer's house, near to the six mile-stone, on the Edgeware-road,1 and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volume 3

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 450 pages
...differ as to some point : I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid.'1 Goldsmith told us that he was now busy in writing...farmer's house, near to the six mile-stone, on the Edgeware Road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said he believed the...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1901 - 502 pages
...differ as to some point ; I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid." Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing a Natural History ;3 and, that he might have full leisure for it, he had taken lodgings at a farmer's house, near to...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 23

William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 418 pages
...under a load of debt and labour, tracked by bailiffs and reproachful creditors, running from a * " Goldsmith told us that he was now busy in writing...had taken lodgings at a farmer's, house, near to the six-mile stone in the Edgware Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He...
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Life of Johnson, Volumes 1-2

James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...differ as to some point : I am only saying that I could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid.' to recommend, by the weight of his learned authority,...English school, a person of whom he who recommended him Edgeware road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the...
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1709-March 18, 1776

James Boswell - 1907 - 628 pages
...differ as to some point : I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid." * Goldsmith told us that he was now busy in writing...had taken lodgings at a farmer's house, near to the six-mile-stone, on the Edgeware Road, and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises....
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Poets' Country

Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - English literature - 1907 - 588 pages
...draughts inspired. Where gray-beard mirth and smiling toil retired. the party of his being busy with his Natural History, and, "that he might have full leisure...taken lodgings at a farmer's house, near to the six mile stone, on the Edgware Road." It seems that he and a pamphleteer, also from Ireland, called Bott,...
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Highways and Byways in Middlesex

Walter Jerrold - Middlesex (England) - 1909 - 456 pages
...animated nature as came within his view, for we learn from Boswell that early in the following year : Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing...farmer's house, near to the six milestone, on the Edgware Road, and had carried down his hooks in two returned post-chaises. He said he believed the...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson ...: Together with a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 602 pages
...differ as to some point: I am only saying that / could 4p it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid." Goldsmith told us, that he was now busy in writing...near to the six mile-stone, on the Edgeware-road, 1 and had carried down his books in two returned post-chaises. He said, he believed the farmer's family...
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 pages
...with a man from whom you differ as to some point ; I am only saying that I could do it." Goldsmith was now busy in writing a Natural History ; and, that...farmer's house, near to the six milestone, on the Bdgeware-road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He said, he believed the...
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