Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... " " Best's Memorials , p . 68 . 3 Such care was needless . Boswell complained ( post , June 24 , 1774 ) , that Johnson did not answer his letters , but only sent him returns . the Aetat . 56. ] Boswell in Corsica . 3 the.
... " " Best's Memorials , p . 68 . 3 Such care was needless . Boswell complained ( post , June 24 , 1774 ) , that Johnson did not answer his letters , but only sent him returns . the Aetat . 56. ] Boswell in Corsica . 3 the.
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... answer , which I found on my arrival at Paris . A Mr. Mr. BoSWELL , chez Mr. WATERS , Banquier , à Paris . DEAR SIR , ' Apologies are seldom of any use . We will delay till your arrival the reasons , good or bad , which have made me ...
... answer , which I found on my arrival at Paris . A Mr. Mr. BoSWELL , chez Mr. WATERS , Banquier , à Paris . DEAR SIR , ' Apologies are seldom of any use . We will delay till your arrival the reasons , good or bad , which have made me ...
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... answer ; or , if occasion required it , was mute , officious , and ever complying . . . . There Johnson sat every morning , receiving visits , hearing the topics of the day , and indolently trifling away the time . Chymistry afforded ...
... answer ; or , if occasion required it , was mute , officious , and ever complying . . . . There Johnson sat every morning , receiving visits , hearing the topics of the day , and indolently trifling away the time . Chymistry afforded ...
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... answer ; but he only said , ' Sir , I did not write them , but that you may not imagine that I have wrote more than I really have , the utmost I have wrote in that poem , to the best of my recollection , is not more than eighteen lines ...
... answer ; but he only said , ' Sir , I did not write them , but that you may not imagine that I have wrote more than I really have , the utmost I have wrote in that poem , to the best of my recollection , is not more than eighteen lines ...
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... answered with a smile , ' My dear Sir , you don't call Rousseau bad company . Do you really think him a bad man ? ' JOHNSON . ' Sir , if you are talking jestingly of this , I don't talk with you . If you mean to be serious , I think him ...
... answered with a smile , ' My dear Sir , you don't call Rousseau bad company . Do you really think him a bad man ? ' JOHNSON . ' Sir , if you are talking jestingly of this , I don't talk with you . If you mean to be serious , I think him ...
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Стр. 321 - He attacked Gray, calling him " a dull fellow." BOSWELL : " I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company ; but surely he was not dull in poetry." JOHNSON : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where.' He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet.
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