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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... told some of his Johnsonian stories , continues : - Mr. Langton told some stories in imitation of Dr. Johnson ; but they became him less than Mr. Bos- well , and only reminded me of what Dr. Johnson himself once said to me- - " Every ...
... told some of his Johnsonian stories , continues : - Mr. Langton told some stories in imitation of Dr. Johnson ; but they became him less than Mr. Bos- well , and only reminded me of what Dr. Johnson himself once said to me- - " Every ...
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... told they had op- posed it , he said , " Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture . " ' ' John Gilbert Cooper related , that soon ...
... told they had op- posed it , he said , " Sir , among the anfractuosities of the human mind , I know not if it may not be one , that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture . " ' ' John Gilbert Cooper related , that soon ...
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... told us he had not ever read so much of it before since it was first printed . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , i . 96. ' I was told , ' wrote Sir Walter Scott , ' that a gentleman called Pot , or some such name , was introduced to him as a ...
... told us he had not ever read so much of it before since it was first printed . ' Mme . D'Arblay's Diary , i . 96. ' I was told , ' wrote Sir Walter Scott , ' that a gentleman called Pot , or some such name , was introduced to him as a ...
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... told a physical truth . If I thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " ' ' Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dis- pute ...
... told a physical truth . If I thought so , though I should have been mistaken , I told a moral truth . " ' ' Huggins , the translator of Ariosto , and Mr. Thomas Warton , in the early part of his literary life , had a dis- pute ...
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... told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto " . " Anapastica was considered but as one verse , however divided in the printing , and consequently the syllables at the end of each line were not common , as in other ...
... told me of my distilling , I would have told him of his grotto " . " Anapastica was considered but as one verse , however divided in the printing , and consequently the syllables at the end of each line were not common , as in other ...
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