Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... received at the Revolution , though necessary ; and secondly , to the timid concessions made to faction by successive administrations in the reign of his I Akenside , in his Ode to Towns- hend ( Book ii . 4 ) , says : -- For not ...
... received at the Revolution , though necessary ; and secondly , to the timid concessions made to faction by successive administrations in the reign of his I Akenside , in his Ode to Towns- hend ( Book ii . 4 ) , says : -- For not ...
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... receiving comfort do as the savages would have done , had they put out their eyes when it was dark . ' Rasselas , ch . 35. ' Keep yourself busy , ' wrote Johnson to Mrs. Thrale , and you will in time grow cheerful . New prospects may ...
... receiving comfort do as the savages would have done , had they put out their eyes when it was dark . ' Rasselas , ch . 35. ' Keep yourself busy , ' wrote Johnson to Mrs. Thrale , and you will in time grow cheerful . New prospects may ...
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... received from the King , and which he had that day put on for the first time in order to go to the House of Lords . ' He is the ' gentle savage ' in Cowper's Task , i . 632 . 2 See ante , ii . 50 . 3 Voltaire ( Siècle de Louis XV , ch ...
... received from the King , and which he had that day put on for the first time in order to go to the House of Lords . ' He is the ' gentle savage ' in Cowper's Task , i . 632 . 2 See ante , ii . 50 . 3 Voltaire ( Siècle de Louis XV , ch ...
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... received and treated with attention . The character of a soldier always stands him in stead ?. BOSWELL . ' Yet , Sir , I think that common soldiers are worse thought of than other men in the same rank of life ; such as labourers ...
... received and treated with attention . The character of a soldier always stands him in stead ?. BOSWELL . ' Yet , Sir , I think that common soldiers are worse thought of than other men in the same rank of life ; such as labourers ...
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... received he goes from his jolly companions to the care of a large parish . ' Ib . p . 197. Bishop Law gave in 1781 a different account of Cambridge . There , he complains , such was the devotion to mathe- matics , that ' young men often ...
... received he goes from his jolly companions to the care of a large parish . ' Ib . p . 197. Bishop Law gave in 1781 a different account of Cambridge . There , he complains , such was the devotion to mathe- matics , that ' young men often ...
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