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... truth Mr. Boswell himself has , more than any other writer , contributed to create the public taste for biographical details ; " the minute selection of cha- racteristic circumstances " was neither the style of Johnson , nor the fashion ...
... truth Mr. Boswell himself has , more than any other writer , contributed to create the public taste for biographical details ; " the minute selection of cha- racteristic circumstances " was neither the style of Johnson , nor the fashion ...
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... truth , defended Lord Chesterfield by saying , that " Cibber , who had been introduced familiarly by the back - stairs , had probably not been there above ten minutes . " It may seem strange even to entertain a doubt concerning a story ...
... truth , defended Lord Chesterfield by saying , that " Cibber , who had been introduced familiarly by the back - stairs , had probably not been there above ten minutes . " It may seem strange even to entertain a doubt concerning a story ...
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... truth of the sentiment so elegantly expressed by my friend Mr. Malone , in his prologue to Mr. Jephson's tragedy of " Julia : " " Vain - wealth , and fame , and fortune's fostering care , If no fond breast the splendid blessings share ...
... truth of the sentiment so elegantly expressed by my friend Mr. Malone , in his prologue to Mr. Jephson's tragedy of " Julia : " " Vain - wealth , and fame , and fortune's fostering care , If no fond breast the splendid blessings share ...
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... truth , a sensible , civil , well - behaved man . — B. [ Lord Chesterfield died in 1773. The " Letters " were pub- lished the year following , by his son's widow ; but the author appears to have given no authority for such a step ...
... truth , a sensible , civil , well - behaved man . — B. [ Lord Chesterfield died in 1773. The " Letters " were pub- lished the year following , by his son's widow ; but the author appears to have given no authority for such a step ...
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... truth is , that in spite of his party bias , Johnson was always a friend to discipline in the political , as in the social world ; and although he joined in the clamour against Walpole , and hated George the Second , his general ...
... truth is , that in spite of his party bias , Johnson was always a friend to discipline in the political , as in the social world ; and although he joined in the clamour against Walpole , and hated George the Second , his general ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides ... James Boswell Visualització completa - 1835 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides ... James Boswell Visualització completa - 1835 |
The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides ... James Boswell Visualització completa - 1835 |
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