Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, Volume 4Harper, 1891 - Hebrides (Scotland) |
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... Thrale made Dr. Johnson read some passages which I had been remarking as un- commonly applicable to the present time . He read several speeches , and told us he had not ever read so much of it before since it was first printed . ' Mme ...
... Thrale made Dr. Johnson read some passages which I had been remarking as un- commonly applicable to the present time . He read several speeches , and told us he had not ever read so much of it before since it was first printed . ' Mme ...
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... Thrale quoted something from Fos- ter's Sermons , Johnson flew in a passion , and said that Foster was a man of mean ability , and of no original thinking . ' Gibbon ( Misc . Works , v . 300 ) wrote of Foster : - ' Wonderful ! a divine ...
... Thrale quoted something from Fos- ter's Sermons , Johnson flew in a passion , and said that Foster was a man of mean ability , and of no original thinking . ' Gibbon ( Misc . Works , v . 300 ) wrote of Foster : - ' Wonderful ! a divine ...
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... to Miss Burney and Miss Thrale . Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , i . 243. In Skye he said , woman is the worse for sense and knowledge . ' Sept. 19 . Depend upon it , no Boswell's Hebrides , ' The 38 Applause of great consequence . [ A.D. 1780 .
... to Miss Burney and Miss Thrale . Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , i . 243. In Skye he said , woman is the worse for sense and knowledge . ' Sept. 19 . Depend upon it , no Boswell's Hebrides , ' The 38 Applause of great consequence . [ A.D. 1780 .
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... Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . But he was princi- pally indebted to my steady friend Mr. Isaac Reed , of Sta- ple - inn , whose extensive and accurate knowledge of English literary history I do not express with ...
... Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . But he was princi- pally indebted to my steady friend Mr. Isaac Reed , of Sta- ple - inn , whose extensive and accurate knowledge of English literary history I do not express with ...
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... Thrale wrote to Johnson in May , 1780 : - Blackmore will be rescued from the old wits who worried him much to your disliking ; so , a little for love of his Christianity , a little for love of his physic , a little for love of his ...
... Thrale wrote to Johnson in May , 1780 : - Blackmore will be rescued from the old wits who worried him much to your disliking ; so , a little for love of his Christianity , a little for love of his physic , a little for love of his ...
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