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INTRODUCTION xi 66 1 It was mentioned in complimentary or courteous fashion , were still alive , have long since passed away . And as it is with the biography , so it is with its hero . No reader now need wince from Johnson's " forcible ...
INTRODUCTION xi 66 1 It was mentioned in complimentary or courteous fashion , were still alive , have long since passed away . And as it is with the biography , so it is with its hero . No reader now need wince from Johnson's " forcible ...
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But the vexation soon passed . It would indeed have been impossible to take Boswell seriously enough to be really angry with him for long . The lines which Pope , in jest , wrote on his own character , would stand in sober earnest for ...
But the vexation soon passed . It would indeed have been impossible to take Boswell seriously enough to be really angry with him for long . The lines which Pope , in jest , wrote on his own character , would stand in sober earnest for ...
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I regret exceedingly that I was deprived of the benefit of his revision , when not more than one half of the book had passed through the press ; but after having completed his very laborious and admirable edition of SHAKESPEARE ...
I regret exceedingly that I was deprived of the benefit of his revision , when not more than one half of the book had passed through the press ; but after having completed his very laborious and admirable edition of SHAKESPEARE ...
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... told me he was broke College , and exercises upon the present , and gave me some account of subject of the day were required . what passed on the night of Johnson's Johnson neglected to perform his , which arrival at Oxford .
... told me he was broke College , and exercises upon the present , and gave me some account of subject of the day were required . what passed on the night of Johnson's Johnson neglected to perform his , which arrival at Oxford .
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... and loved by all about I do not find that he formed any close him , was a gay and frolicsome fellow , intimacies with his fellow - collegians . and passed there the happiest part of his But Dr. Adams told me , that he conlife .
... and loved by all about I do not find that he formed any close him , was a gay and frolicsome fellow , intimacies with his fellow - collegians . and passed there the happiest part of his But Dr. Adams told me , that he conlife .
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