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Pagina ii
... English bosom than Samuel Johnson now bore . " - THOMAS CARLYLE . " The names of many greater writers are inscribed on the walls of West- minster Abbey ; but scarcely anyone lies there whose heart was more acutely responsive during life ...
... English bosom than Samuel Johnson now bore . " - THOMAS CARLYLE . " The names of many greater writers are inscribed on the walls of West- minster Abbey ; but scarcely anyone lies there whose heart was more acutely responsive during life ...
Pagina vii
... English language . Johnson little knew that he sealed his own fate by this very uncharacteristic reception of a volatile Scottish laird . We are , however , so accustomed to associate the great Doctor with Boswell that we are apt to ...
... English language . Johnson little knew that he sealed his own fate by this very uncharacteristic reception of a volatile Scottish laird . We are , however , so accustomed to associate the great Doctor with Boswell that we are apt to ...
Pagina ix
... English Language , and the happy recipient of a Government pension . The incident is admirably described in the Life of Johnson , " Boswell at the time was twenty - three , and Johnson fifty - four . Boswell's Scottish birth was not a ...
... English Language , and the happy recipient of a Government pension . The incident is admirably described in the Life of Johnson , " Boswell at the time was twenty - three , and Johnson fifty - four . Boswell's Scottish birth was not a ...
Pagina x
... English Bar until 1786. By his father's death , which occurred in 1782 , Boswell inherited a fortune of £ 1,600 a year . Johnson's health was severely impaired in 1783 and 1784 , and in June of the latter year Boswell attempted to ...
... English Bar until 1786. By his father's death , which occurred in 1782 , Boswell inherited a fortune of £ 1,600 a year . Johnson's health was severely impaired in 1783 and 1784 , and in June of the latter year Boswell attempted to ...
Pagina xiii
... English in his dislike of shams and his love of common sense , but because we know so much more about him than we do about any of his contemporaries . The statement , moreover , shows that , so wide is the Doctor's fame , even young ...
... English in his dislike of shams and his love of common sense , but because we know so much more about him than we do about any of his contemporaries . The statement , moreover , shows that , so wide is the Doctor's fame , even young ...
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