Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales, 第 1 巻Bigelow, Brown & Company, 1799 |
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... thought it needful in the Index to refer to the book unless the eminence of the author required a separate and a second entry . My labour would have been increased beyond all endurance and my Index have been swollen almost into a ...
... thought it needful in the Index to refer to the book unless the eminence of the author required a separate and a second entry . My labour would have been increased beyond all endurance and my Index have been swollen almost into a ...
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... thought of giving it up . ' Letters of Boswell , p . 311 . ' Boswell writing to Temple in 1775 , says : I try to keep a journal , and shall shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credi- ble what ground I go over , and ...
... thought of giving it up . ' Letters of Boswell , p . 311 . ' Boswell writing to Temple in 1775 , says : I try to keep a journal , and shall shew you that I have done tolerably ; but it is hardly credi- ble what ground I go over , and ...
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... thought myself in the company , and of the party almost throughout . It has given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and ...
... thought myself in the company , and of the party almost throughout . It has given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and ...
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... thought proper , in the purchase of a picture at the sale of his paint- ings , to be kept for his sake . ' Taylor's Reynolds , ii . 636 . Of the seventy - five years that Johnson lived , he and Boswell did not spend two years and two ...
... thought proper , in the purchase of a picture at the sale of his paint- ings , to be kept for his sake . ' Taylor's Reynolds , ii . 636 . Of the seventy - five years that Johnson lived , he and Boswell did not spend two years and two ...
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... thought myself quite well ; but I soon felt a convic- tion that I was by no means as I should be - so exceedingly weak , as my miserable attempt to write to you afforded a full proof . All then that can be said is , that I must wait ...
... thought myself quite well ; but I soon felt a convic- tion that I was by no means as I should be - so exceedingly weak , as my miserable attempt to write to you afforded a full proof . All then that can be said is , that I must wait ...
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