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Were there no positive testimony as to this point , the style of the performance ,
and the name of Shakspeare not being mentioned in an Essay professedly
reviewing the principal English poets , would ascertain it not to be the production
of ...
Were there no positive testimony as to this point , the style of the performance ,
and the name of Shakspeare not being mentioned in an Essay professedly
reviewing the principal English poets , would ascertain it not to be the production
of ...
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Dodsley first mentioned to me the scheme of an English Dictionary ; but I had
long thought of it . ... Johnson , in mentioning Pope , says : — Of whom I may be
justified in affirming that were he still alive , solicitous as he was for the success of
...
Dodsley first mentioned to me the scheme of an English Dictionary ; but I had
long thought of it . ... Johnson , in mentioning Pope , says : — Of whom I may be
justified in affirming that were he still alive , solicitous as he was for the success of
...
Page 473
I mentioned Mallet's tragedy of Elvira ' , which had been acted the preceding
winter at Drury - lane , and that the Honourable Andrew Erskine ' , Mr. Dempster®
, and myself , had joined in writing a pamphlet , entitled , Critical Strictures ,
against ...
I mentioned Mallet's tragedy of Elvira ' , which had been acted the preceding
winter at Drury - lane , and that the Honourable Andrew Erskine ' , Mr. Dempster®
, and myself , had joined in writing a pamphlet , entitled , Critical Strictures ,
against ...
Page 520
I mentioned that Sir James had said to me , that he had never seen Mr. Johnson ,
but he had a being ' originally poor . ' It is , no doubt , after Boswell's fashion to
introduce in consecutive paragraphs the same person once by name and once ...
I mentioned that Sir James had said to me , that he had never seen Mr. Johnson ,
but he had a being ' originally poor . ' It is , no doubt , after Boswell's fashion to
introduce in consecutive paragraphs the same person once by name and once ...
Page 536
I mentioned an imprudent publication ' , by a certain friend of his , at an early
period of life , and asked him if he thought it would hurt him . JOHNSON . “ No ,
Sir ; not much . It may , perhaps , be mentioned at an election . ' I had now made
good ...
I mentioned an imprudent publication ' , by a certain friend of his , at an early
period of life , and asked him if he thought it would hurt him . JOHNSON . “ No ,
Sir ; not much . It may , perhaps , be mentioned at an election . ' I had now made
good ...
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| Title | Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1 Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1799 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2006 |
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