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The fragments of our first conversation , which I have preserved , are these : I told him that Voltaire , in a conversation with me , had distinguished Pope and Dryden thus : - " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat ...
The fragments of our first conversation , which I have preserved , are these : I told him that Voltaire , in a conversation with me , had distinguished Pope and Dryden thus : - " Pope drives a handsome chariot , with a couple of neat ...
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Much , no doubt , both of the sentiments and ex- pression were derived from conversation with him ; and it was certainly submitted to his friendly revision : but in the year 1783 , he at my request marked with a pencil the lines which ...
Much , no doubt , both of the sentiments and ex- pression were derived from conversation with him ; and it was certainly submitted to his friendly revision : but in the year 1783 , he at my request marked with a pencil the lines which ...
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Now , sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . " BOSWELL .
Now , sir , the good I can do by my conversation bears the same proportion to the good I can do by my writings , that the practice of a physician retired to a small town , does to his practice in a great city . " BOSWELL .
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Such specimens of the easy and playful conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson are , I think , to be prized ; as exhibiting the little varieties of a mind so enlarged and so powerful when objects of consequence required its ex- ...
Such specimens of the easy and playful conversation of the great Dr. Samuel Johnson are , I think , to be prized ; as exhibiting the little varieties of a mind so enlarged and so powerful when objects of consequence required its ex- ...
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... of the brothers of Johnson's early friend , Henry Hervey . He married , in 1744 , Anne , daughter of Francis Coughlan , esq . and died Jan. 1775. - MALONE . 20 , was his being honoured by a private conversation with his 30 [ 1767 .
... of the brothers of Johnson's early friend , Henry Hervey . He married , in 1744 , Anne , daughter of Francis Coughlan , esq . and died Jan. 1775. - MALONE . 20 , was his being honoured by a private conversation with his 30 [ 1767 .
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| Titel | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 2 van The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Auteur | James Boswell |
| Uitgever | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 18 juni 2007 |
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