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Page viii
... passages in the Lives give the number of the paragraph of the Life to which allusion is made , e . g . Ante or Post MILTON 274. The paragraph numbers are printed throughout in bold italic on the outer margin of each page of the text ...
... passages in the Lives give the number of the paragraph of the Life to which allusion is made , e . g . Ante or Post MILTON 274. The paragraph numbers are printed throughout in bold italic on the outer margin of each page of the text ...
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 relating 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 relating 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 xxvi
... passage Blackmore on the Creation , and follows here relating to Dryden's Watts . How then are they John- funeral . See post , DRYDEN , 154 , n . 2 , son's ? This is indecent . " ' Boswell's where this passage is given and the Johnson ...
... passage Blackmore on the Creation , and follows here relating to Dryden's Watts . How then are they John- funeral . See post , DRYDEN , 154 , n . 2 , son's ? This is indecent . " ' Boswell's where this passage is given and the Johnson ...
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