Boswell's Life of JohnsonOxford University Press, 1904 - 704 oldal |
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... Boswell , who had not even resid- ed in the same city with him . Sir John Hawkins had known Johnson intimately when James Boswell was but a little boy , who had not even heard his name ; Hawkins was a fellow - member of the Ivy Lane ...
... Boswell , who had not even resid- ed in the same city with him . Sir John Hawkins had known Johnson intimately when James Boswell was but a little boy , who had not even heard his name ; Hawkins was a fellow - member of the Ivy Lane ...
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James Boswell. INTRODUCTION xiii senting , in his Tour to the Hebrides , her opinion of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu's Essay on Shakespeare . Sir John's attack was at once subtler and more venomous . The only reference to Boswell in the book ...
James Boswell. INTRODUCTION xiii senting , in his Tour to the Hebrides , her opinion of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu's Essay on Shakespeare . Sir John's attack was at once subtler and more venomous . The only reference to Boswell in the book ...
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... Boswell had announced as much in that final page of the Tour to the Hebrides of which mention has been made above . How vast was that store of materials we have now , since the discovery and publication of the Boswell Papers from ...
... Boswell had announced as much in that final page of the Tour to the Hebrides of which mention has been made above . How vast was that store of materials we have now , since the discovery and publication of the Boswell Papers from ...
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... Boswell saw his oppor- tunity and seized it . The result , as Mr. Scott has said , is book without a precedent and without a detractor . Besides having a picturesque hero , Boswell had a sub- ject of great contemporary interest ...
... Boswell saw his oppor- tunity and seized it . The result , as Mr. Scott has said , is book without a precedent and without a detractor . Besides having a picturesque hero , Boswell had a sub- ject of great contemporary interest ...
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James Boswell. xvi INTRODUCTION studious exclusion from all decent society . All this is but a tithe of the evidence that might be cited . It is essential , in accounting for the contemporary suc- cess of Boswell's book , to recall how ...
James Boswell. xvi INTRODUCTION studious exclusion from all decent society . All this is but a tithe of the evidence that might be cited . It is essential , in accounting for the contemporary suc- cess of Boswell's book , to recall how ...
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