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... edition . The industry of Boswell in searching for materials was such , that not even the vivacious enquiries of Craddock , and the minute research of Polwhele , have added much to the original life . We have carefully perused most of ...
... edition . The industry of Boswell in searching for materials was such , that not even the vivacious enquiries of Craddock , and the minute research of Polwhele , have added much to the original life . We have carefully perused most of ...
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... edition . After his decease many letters , poems , translations , and minor essays appeared in the St. James's Chroni- cle , and other publications of the day , purporting to be from the pen of Johnson . We have care- fully examined ...
... edition . After his decease many letters , poems , translations , and minor essays appeared in the St. James's Chroni- cle , and other publications of the day , purporting to be from the pen of Johnson . We have care- fully examined ...
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... edition of Johnson's works . An incessant dread of insanity , in one form or other , was that single idea to the despotism of which , to adopt the language of De Staël , Johnson's otherwise powerful mind was always and entirely enslaved ...
... edition of Johnson's works . An incessant dread of insanity , in one form or other , was that single idea to the despotism of which , to adopt the language of De Staël , Johnson's otherwise powerful mind was always and entirely enslaved ...
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... edition purchased at the Boswell sale in the spring of the year 1825 , it appears that Johnson wrote some love verses entitled , " To Miss Hickman playing on the Spinet , " before he left Staffordshire , and which seem to have escaped ...
... edition purchased at the Boswell sale in the spring of the year 1825 , it appears that Johnson wrote some love verses entitled , " To Miss Hickman playing on the Spinet , " before he left Staffordshire , and which seem to have escaped ...
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... edition I was induced to doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lichfield : - " I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was ...
... edition I was induced to doubt the authenticity of this account , by the following circumstantial statement in a letter to me from Miss Seward , of Lichfield : - " I know those verses were addressed to Lucy Porter , when he was ...
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