Table Talk: Or, Selections from the Ana. Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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... Boswell's Life , are added under the head of Johnsoniana ; and a few selections from the valuable , but imperfectly known Omniana of Southey , close the ex- tracts from the English Ana . EDINBURGH , July 1827 . TABLE - TALK . PART I ...
... Boswell's Life , are added under the head of Johnsoniana ; and a few selections from the valuable , but imperfectly known Omniana of Southey , close the ex- tracts from the English Ana . EDINBURGH , July 1827 . TABLE - TALK . PART I ...
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... Boswell , " Sir , the way in which the plan of my Dictionary came to be inscribed to Lord Chesterfield , was this : I had neglected to write it by the time appointed ; Dodsley suggested a desire to have it addressed to Lord Chesterfield ...
... Boswell , " Sir , the way in which the plan of my Dictionary came to be inscribed to Lord Chesterfield , was this : I had neglected to write it by the time appointed ; Dodsley suggested a desire to have it addressed to Lord Chesterfield ...
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... Boswell concerning Lord Ches- terfield , upon this occasion , was , " Sir , after ma- king great professions , he had , for many years , ta- ken no notice of me ; but when my Dictionary was coming out , he fell a - scribbling in The ...
... Boswell concerning Lord Ches- terfield , upon this occasion , was , " Sir , after ma- king great professions , he had , for many years , ta- ken no notice of me ; but when my Dictionary was coming out , he fell a - scribbling in The ...
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... Boswell showed him , as a curiosity which he had discovered , his Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , which Sir John Pringle had lent , it being then little known as one of his works . He said , " Take no notice of it , " or ...
... Boswell showed him , as a curiosity which he had discovered , his Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia , which Sir John Pringle had lent , it being then little known as one of his works . He said , " Take no notice of it , " or ...
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... Boswell was at Ferney , he repeated this to Voltaire , in order to reconcile him somewhat to Johnson , whom he , in affecting the English mode of expression , had pre- viously characterised as " a superstitious dog ; " but after hearing ...
... Boswell was at Ferney , he repeated this to Voltaire , in order to reconcile him somewhat to Johnson , whom he , in affecting the English mode of expression , had pre- viously characterised as " a superstitious dog ; " but after hearing ...
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