The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 Seiten |
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... though malignity may sometimes be dis appointed of its gratifications . I am , my dear Sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL London , April 20 , 1791 . I AT last deliver to the world a work which.
... though malignity may sometimes be dis appointed of its gratifications . I am , my dear Sir , Your much obliged friend , And faithful humble servant , JAMES BOSWELL London , April 20 , 1791 . I AT last deliver to the world a work which.
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... obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date cor- rectly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ... oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with , I think I have read , " or ...
... obliged to run half over London , in order to fix a date cor- rectly ; which , when I had accomplished , I well knew ... oblige every author to attend to this , and never to presume to introduce them with , I think I have read , " or ...
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... obliged to introduce them in his second edition , by way of Addenda , as commodiously as he could . They have now been distributed in their proper places . In re- vising his volumes for a new edition he had pointed out where some of ...
... obliged to introduce them in his second edition , by way of Addenda , as commodiously as he could . They have now been distributed in their proper places . In re- vising his volumes for a new edition he had pointed out where some of ...
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... obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where there is such a dull , heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages , that it makes their method quite nauseous . But the verbose ...
... obliged to go through with this of Milton's , or the other's life of Boileau , where there is such a dull , heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting passages , that it makes their method quite nauseous . But the verbose ...
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... obliged in so many instances to notice Mrs. Piozzi's incorrectness of relation , that I gladly seize this opportunity of acknowledging , that however often , she is not always inaccurate . The author having been drawn into a controversy ...
... obliged in so many instances to notice Mrs. Piozzi's incorrectness of relation , that I gladly seize this opportunity of acknowledging , that however often , she is not always inaccurate . The author having been drawn into a controversy ...
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