The Life of Samuel Johnson: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1George Allen & Unwin, Limited, 1924 |
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... kind enough to encourage me to under . take the task of restoring the text of Mr. Boswell's great Bio- graphy and , in addition , have allowed me to inscribe the work , now completed , to you . That my humble labour will be found worthy ...
... kind enough to encourage me to under . take the task of restoring the text of Mr. Boswell's great Bio- graphy and , in addition , have allowed me to inscribe the work , now completed , to you . That my humble labour will be found worthy ...
Pagina xvii
... kind , filled with names and local allusions , the stock of newly - discovered information , gathering as it goes , will become inexhaustible . If all that can be told about such subjects is to be told , or even abstracted , the tide of ...
... kind , filled with names and local allusions , the stock of newly - discovered information , gathering as it goes , will become inexhaustible . If all that can be told about such subjects is to be told , or even abstracted , the tide of ...
Pagina xix
... — often of a jocular kind - is scarcely warrantable . There is not space here for a detailed review of the work , but it may be said that there are 66 Dr. many theories , explanation of blanks , and PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. ...
... — often of a jocular kind - is scarcely warrantable . There is not space here for a detailed review of the work , but it may be said that there are 66 Dr. many theories , explanation of blanks , and PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. ...
Pagina xxiii
... kind enough to put in writing , as an answer to that letter , what you have now said , and as Lord Percy is to dine with us at General Paoli's soon , I will take an opportunity to read the correspon- dence in his lordship's presence ...
... kind enough to put in writing , as an answer to that letter , what you have now said , and as Lord Percy is to dine with us at General Paoli's soon , I will take an opportunity to read the correspon- dence in his lordship's presence ...
Pagina xxxii
... kind and flattering speech of Johnson's about himself . It is evident that he had given offence . Again he reports Dr. Scott as relating that Blackstone composed his " Commentaries " with a bottle of port before him . This was not a ...
... kind and flattering speech of Johnson's about himself . It is evident that he had given offence . Again he reports Dr. Scott as relating that Blackstone composed his " Commentaries " with a bottle of port before him . This was not a ...
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