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James Boswell. MACMILLAN AND CO . , LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS . MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO DALLAS THE MACMILLAN CO . OF CANADA , LTD . TORONTO The Life of Samuel Johnson , LL.D ...
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James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. By James Boswell , Esq . IN THREE VOLS . - VOL . I. MACMILLAN AND CO . , LIMITED ST . MARTIN'S STREET , LONDON 1922 Storage Undergraduate Library PR 3533 .87 1922a vil COPYRIGHT First.
James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. By James Boswell , Esq . IN THREE VOLS . - VOL . I. MACMILLAN AND CO . , LIMITED ST . MARTIN'S STREET , LONDON 1922 Storage Undergraduate Library PR 3533 .87 1922a vil COPYRIGHT First.
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James Boswell. Library TM Colle leh 5-1-56 3 VOL . BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THIS edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson is reprinted from that prepared by Mr. Mowbray Morris for the Messrs . Macmillan's " Globe " series in 1893. As the plan of ...
James Boswell. Library TM Colle leh 5-1-56 3 VOL . BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE THIS edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson is reprinted from that prepared by Mr. Mowbray Morris for the Messrs . Macmillan's " Globe " series in 1893. As the plan of ...
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Página 187 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
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Página 142 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
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