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Page xv
... passages and allusions . ' In his reviewing it fell to his lot to criticize works that bore both on Boswell and Johnson , and his love and know- ledge of the subject increased ; but it was not until 1875 that he first definitely ...
... passages and allusions . ' In his reviewing it fell to his lot to criticize works that bore both on Boswell and Johnson , and his love and know- ledge of the subject increased ; but it was not until 1875 that he first definitely ...
Page xxvi
... passage follows here rčlating to Dryden's funeral . See post , DRYDEN , 154 n . 2 , where this passage is given and the subject discussed . 5 [ In Colman's Beaumont and Fletcher , 1778. Eng . Poets , 1790 , vol . i . p . 4 n . In the ...
... passage follows here rčlating to Dryden's funeral . See post , DRYDEN , 154 n . 2 , where this passage is given and the subject discussed . 5 [ In Colman's Beaumont and Fletcher , 1778. Eng . Poets , 1790 , vol . i . p . 4 n . In the ...
Page xxvii
... passages are those of a man who had such a stock of words at his command that in copying he substituted one for another - sometimes for the better . They show that vast as were the powers of his memory , they were not always strictly ...
... passages are those of a man who had such a stock of words at his command that in copying he substituted one for another - sometimes for the better . They show that vast as were the powers of his memory , they were not always strictly ...
Page 8
... passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 19 ' The Scotch treaty , ' says he , ' is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and ...
... passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : 19 ' The Scotch treaty , ' says he , ' is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and ...
Page 9
... passage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his eyes on . ' For Charles I and Falkland thus turning up in the Bod- leian , as it was reported , the Aeneid , iv . 615 ; xi . 152 see Johnson's Works , vii . 6n . See also ...
... passage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his eyes on . ' For Charles I and Falkland thus turning up in the Bod- leian , as it was reported , the Aeneid , iv . 615 ; xi . 152 see Johnson's Works , vii . 6n . See also ...
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