Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of Atour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Том 3; Томове 1776–1780Clarendon Press, 1887 |
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... Miss Thrale , and Signor Baretti , their Italian master , to Bath ' . This was not shewing the attention which might have been expected to the ' Guide , Philosopher , and Friend , ' the Imlac3 who had hastened from the country to ...
... Miss Thrale , and Signor Baretti , their Italian master , to Bath ' . This was not shewing the attention which might have been expected to the ' Guide , Philosopher , and Friend , ' the Imlac3 who had hastened from the country to ...
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... Miss Burney wrote of her : - ' Allowing a little for parade and ostentation , which her power in wealth and rank in literature offer some excuse for , her conver- sation is very agreeable . ' D'Arblay's Diary , i . 325 . April 7 , 1778 ...
... Miss Burney wrote of her : - ' Allowing a little for parade and ostentation , which her power in wealth and rank in literature offer some excuse for , her conver- sation is very agreeable . ' D'Arblay's Diary , i . 325 . April 7 , 1778 ...
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... Miss Burney re- cords in 1778 , that when Johnson was telling about Bet Flint ( post , May 8 , 1781 ) and other strange cha- racters whom he had known , ' Mrs. Thrale said , " I wonder , Sir , you never went to see Mrs. Rudd among the ...
... Miss Burney re- cords in 1778 , that when Johnson was telling about Bet Flint ( post , May 8 , 1781 ) and other strange cha- racters whom he had known , ' Mrs. Thrale said , " I wonder , Sir , you never went to see Mrs. Rudd among the ...
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... Miss Reynolds has a mind to send the Epitaph to Dr. Beattie ; I am very willing , but having no copy , cannot immediately recollect it . She tells me you have lost it . Try to recollect and put down as much as you retain ; you perhaps ...
... Miss Reynolds has a mind to send the Epitaph to Dr. Beattie ; I am very willing , but having no copy , cannot immediately recollect it . She tells me you have lost it . Try to recollect and put down as much as you retain ; you perhaps ...
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... Miss Whitbred , who would be a pretty companion for her , and not tyrannical and overbearing like me . ' Hayward's Piozzi , ii . 336 . No doubt in 1788 he attacked her brutally ( see ante , p . 49 ) . ' I could not have suspected him ...
... Miss Whitbred , who would be a pretty companion for her , and not tyrannical and overbearing like me . ' Hayward's Piozzi , ii . 336 . No doubt in 1788 he attacked her brutally ( see ante , p . 49 ) . ' I could not have suspected him ...
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