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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... answer with violence , and said , " I will militate no longer against his nescience . " Huggins was master of the subject , but wanted expression . Mr. War- ton's knowledge of it was then imperfect , but his manner lively and elegant ...
... answer with violence , and said , " I will militate no longer against his nescience . " Huggins was master of the subject , but wanted expression . Mr. War- ton's knowledge of it was then imperfect , but his manner lively and elegant ...
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... answer for himself : I never engaged in this con- troversy . I always said , Shakspeare had Latin enough to grammaticise his English " . " ' A clergyman , whom he characterised as one who loved to say little oddities , was affecting one ...
... answer for himself : I never engaged in this con- troversy . I always said , Shakspeare had Latin enough to grammaticise his English " . " ' A clergyman , whom he characterised as one who loved to say little oddities , was affecting one ...
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... answered , " I doubt , Sir , he was unoculus inter cæcos . " ' ' He used frequently to observe , that men might be very eminent in a profession , without our perceiving any par- ticular power of mind in them in conversation . " It seems ...
... answered , " I doubt , Sir , he was unoculus inter cæcos . " ' ' He used frequently to observe , that men might be very eminent in a profession , without our perceiving any par- ticular power of mind in them in conversation . " It seems ...
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... frequently tender : when he answered , ' Sir , he is all ten- derness . ' BURNEY . He describes Otway as one of the first names in the English drama . ' Works , vii . 173 . Aetat . 71. ] Johnson studies Low Dutch . 25 liking.
... frequently tender : when he answered , ' Sir , he is all ten- derness . ' BURNEY . He describes Otway as one of the first names in the English drama . ' Works , vii . 173 . Aetat . 71. ] Johnson studies Low Dutch . 25 liking.
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... answer ( by many supposed to be by Mr. Wilkes ) . Dr. Johnson deter- mined on not answering it ; but , in conversation with Mr. Langton , mentioned a particular or two , which if he had replied to it , he might perhaps have inserted ...
... answer ( by many supposed to be by Mr. Wilkes ) . Dr. Johnson deter- mined on not answering it ; but , in conversation with Mr. Langton , mentioned a particular or two , which if he had replied to it , he might perhaps have inserted ...
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