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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... sent for . Piozzi Letters , i . 309–314 . 2 Pope , Essay on Man , iv . 390 . Boswell twice more applies the same line to Johnson , post , June 3 , 1781 , and under Dec. 13 , 1784 . 3 Imlac consoles the Princess for the loss of Pekuah ...
... sent for . Piozzi Letters , i . 309–314 . 2 Pope , Essay on Man , iv . 390 . Boswell twice more applies the same line to Johnson , post , June 3 , 1781 , and under Dec. 13 , 1784 . 3 Imlac consoles the Princess for the loss of Pekuah ...
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... sent home to be tried . Gent . Mag . 1758 , p . 170 . Mr. Croker says that ' the real state of the case was that he had gone mad , and was in that state sent home . ' He died before the sentence of the court - martial was promulgated ...
... sent home to be tried . Gent . Mag . 1758 , p . 170 . Mr. Croker says that ' the real state of the case was that he had gone mad , and was in that state sent home . ' He died before the sentence of the court - martial was promulgated ...
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... sent the gentleman five hundred pounds , with an apology that it was all he had in the world . The gentleman sent the money back to him , declaring he would not accept of it ; and adding , that if Mr. had occasion for five hundred ...
... sent the gentleman five hundred pounds , with an apology that it was all he had in the world . The gentleman sent the money back to him , declaring he would not accept of it ; and adding , that if Mr. had occasion for five hundred ...
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... sent what we wrote to the press , and let it take its chance . ' MRS . THRALE . ' The time has been , Sir , when you felt it . ' JOHNSON . ' Why really , Madam , I do not recollect a time when that was the case . ' Talking of The ...
... sent what we wrote to the press , and let it take its chance . ' MRS . THRALE . ' The time has been , Sir , when you felt it . ' JOHNSON . ' Why really , Madam , I do not recollect a time when that was the case . ' Talking of The ...
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... sent the following application for rooms in Hampton Court to the Lord Cham- berlain : - ' MY LORD , Being wholly unknown to your lordship , I have only this apology to make for presuming to trouble you with a request , that a stranger's ...
... sent the following application for rooms in Hampton Court to the Lord Cham- berlain : - ' MY LORD , Being wholly unknown to your lordship , I have only this apology to make for presuming to trouble you with a request , that a stranger's ...
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