Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonOctagon Books, 1967 |
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... Johnson wrote to Boswell on May 3 , 1777 : - ' I think I have persuaded the bookseller to insert something of Thomson [ in the Lives ] ; and if you could give me some information about him , for the Life which we have is very scanty , I ...
... Johnson wrote to Boswell on May 3 , 1777 : - ' I think I have persuaded the bookseller to insert something of Thomson [ in the Lives ] ; and if you could give me some information about him , for the Life which we have is very scanty , I ...
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... Johnson , who had undertaken only to write Prefaces but had given Lives , grew weary of his task before he reached ... Boswell's Johnson , iv . 58. In 1784 Croft met Johnson at Pembroke Col- lege . ' I am afraid , ' writes Boswell , ' he ...
... Johnson , who had undertaken only to write Prefaces but had given Lives , grew weary of his task before he reached ... Boswell's Johnson , iv . 58. In 1784 Croft met Johnson at Pembroke Col- lege . ' I am afraid , ' writes Boswell , ' he ...
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... Johnson , ' was better than that which Whitehead has assumed . Grand nonsense is insupportable . ' Boswell's Johnson , i . 402 . APPENDIX AA ( PAGES 435 , 441 ) ' Johnson attacked Gray , calling him " a dull fellow . " Boswell . " I ...
... Johnson , ' was better than that which Whitehead has assumed . Grand nonsense is insupportable . ' Boswell's Johnson , i . 402 . APPENDIX AA ( PAGES 435 , 441 ) ' Johnson attacked Gray , calling him " a dull fellow . " Boswell . " I ...
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