Boswell's Life of Johnson: LifeClarendon Press, 1887 |
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... MARCH , 1776 ) I - 475 APPENDICES : A. AUTOGRAPH RECORDS BY JOHNSON ( 1766 ) IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY · B. JOHNSON'S SENTIMENTS TOWARDS HIS FELLOW - SUBJECTS IN AMERICA 476 478 Dear Si Лидир ад August 25. 1763 and Grun most.
... MARCH , 1776 ) I - 475 APPENDICES : A. AUTOGRAPH RECORDS BY JOHNSON ( 1766 ) IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY · B. JOHNSON'S SENTIMENTS TOWARDS HIS FELLOW - SUBJECTS IN AMERICA 476 478 Dear Si Лидир ад August 25. 1763 and Grun most.
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... March 23 , 1768. ) Temple , to whom the book had been shewn before publication , had , it should seem , advised Boswell to omit this extract . Boswell replied : - ' Your remarks are of great service to me ... but I must have my great ...
... March 23 , 1768. ) Temple , to whom the book had been shewn before publication , had , it should seem , advised Boswell to omit this extract . Boswell replied : - ' Your remarks are of great service to me ... but I must have my great ...
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... March 20 , 1776 , note . 2 See ante , i . 103 . 3 Baretti was in Italy at the same time as Boswell . That they met seems to be shewn by a passage in Boswell's letter ( post , Nov. 6 , 1766 ) . Malone wrote of him : - He appears to be an ...
... March 20 , 1776 , note . 2 See ante , i . 103 . 3 Baretti was in Italy at the same time as Boswell . That they met seems to be shewn by a passage in Boswell's letter ( post , Nov. 6 , 1766 ) . Malone wrote of him : - He appears to be an ...
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... . I never could advance my curiosity to conviction ; but came away at last only willing to believe . ' See also post , March 24 , 1775. Hume said of the evidence in favour of I talked Aetat . 57. ] Rousseau and Wilkes . I I.
... . I never could advance my curiosity to conviction ; but came away at last only willing to believe . ' See also post , March 24 , 1775. Hume said of the evidence in favour of I talked Aetat . 57. ] Rousseau and Wilkes . I I.
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... March 19 , 1776 . 3 See ante , i . 192 , and post , May 1 , 1783. Goldsmith wrote The Traveller and Deserted Village on a very dif- ferent plan . ' To save himself the trouble of transcription , he wrote the lines in his first copy very ...
... March 19 , 1776 . 3 See ante , i . 192 , and post , May 1 , 1783. Goldsmith wrote The Traveller and Deserted Village on a very dif- ferent plan . ' To save himself the trouble of transcription , he wrote the lines in his first copy very ...
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Стр. 327 - 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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