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Page viii
... Character read The Poetical Calendar , vol . iii , p . 359 , app . T , last line but one , for Whitfield read Whitefield . In the Notes , all cross - references to passages in the Lives give the number of the paragraph of the Life to ...
... Character read The Poetical Calendar , vol . iii , p . 359 , app . T , last line but one , for Whitfield read Whitefield . In the Notes , all cross - references to passages in the Lives give the number of the paragraph of the Life to ...
Page x
... character as he would otherwise have enjoyed . Even with this impediment , which did much to cut him off from entering on new fields of literature , so great was his love of Shakespeare that he had stored in his retentive memory at ...
... character as he would otherwise have enjoyed . Even with this impediment , which did much to cut him off from entering on new fields of literature , so great was his love of Shakespeare that he had stored in his retentive memory at ...
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... character , and enthusiastic energy , whose untimely death by drowning in the Isis in 1862 robbed the University of ' a great and beneficent influence , ' to quote the late Master of Balliol , and was lamented in an eloquent tribute by ...
... character , and enthusiastic energy , whose untimely death by drowning in the Isis in 1862 robbed the University of ' a great and beneficent influence , ' to quote the late Master of Balliol , and was lamented in an eloquent tribute by ...
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... character in his notes to Johnson's life of Swift . I In 1899 two articles by him , Boswell's Proof Sheets and The Boswell Centenary , were included in a collection of papers on Dr. Johnson written by members of the Johnson Club2 , and ...
... character in his notes to Johnson's life of Swift . I In 1899 two articles by him , Boswell's Proof Sheets and The Boswell Centenary , were included in a collection of papers on Dr. Johnson written by members of the Johnson Club2 , and ...
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... character , he had weathered many of the troubles of life . It was a source of comfort to him , during the brief span of life left , that his own failing strength had permitted him to tend and watch over her till the last . She died in ...
... character , he had weathered many of the troubles of life . It was a source of comfort to him , during the brief span of life left , that his own failing strength had permitted him to tend and watch over her till the last . She died in ...
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