The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Том 1Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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... respect and the warmest affection for you . " It was bad to read this in the " Life , " but what will be said when we find that Mr. Boswell actually read it aloud at the dinner in presence of Lord Percy : for he uses the phrase , " read ...
... respect and the warmest affection for you . " It was bad to read this in the " Life , " but what will be said when we find that Mr. Boswell actually read it aloud at the dinner in presence of Lord Percy : for he uses the phrase , " read ...
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... respect this work will in some passages be different from the former . " Tour " I was almost unboundedly open in my communications ; and from my eagerness to display the wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , freely shewed ...
... respect this work will in some passages be different from the former . " Tour " I was almost unboundedly open in my communications ; and from my eagerness to display the wonderful fertility and readiness of Johnson's wit , freely shewed ...
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... respects , as 1 The book was published in April , and by August , 1200 out of an edition of 1700 , had been sold . Nearly 4000 copies , Malone says , were sold in thirteen years . Boswell's letters , on the eve of publication , show a ...
... respects , as 1 The book was published in April , and by August , 1200 out of an edition of 1700 , had been sold . Nearly 4000 copies , Malone says , were sold in thirteen years . Boswell's letters , on the eve of publication , show a ...
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... respect due to the Publick which should oblige every Authour to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with " I think I have read ; " —or , - " If I remember right ; " -when the originals may be examined . I beg leave ...
... respect due to the Publick which should oblige every Authour to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with " I think I have read ; " —or , - " If I remember right ; " -when the originals may be examined . I beg leave ...
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... respect be assimilated to the ODYSSEY . Amidst a thousand enter- taining and instructive episodes the HERO is never long out of sight ; for they are all in some degree connected with him ; and HE in the whole course of the History is ...
... respect be assimilated to the ODYSSEY . Amidst a thousand enter- taining and instructive episodes the HERO is never long out of sight ; for they are all in some degree connected with him ; and HE in the whole course of the History is ...
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