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... Latin classics . Winter , a retired professor of the classics at the University of Michigan , had collected " all ... Latin was much more exten- sive than it was in Greek , " although he 53 Boswell's Small (?) Latin and Less Greek •
... Latin classics . Winter , a retired professor of the classics at the University of Michigan , had collected " all ... Latin was much more exten- sive than it was in Greek , " although he 53 Boswell's Small (?) Latin and Less Greek •
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... Latin , with one or two excep- tions . He admitted that he was " not competent " to decide on the merits of Johnson's Latin poetry , but he defended himself rigor- ously against Johnson's criticism of his Latin Dedication in his Thesis ...
... Latin , with one or two excep- tions . He admitted that he was " not competent " to decide on the merits of Johnson's Latin poetry , but he defended himself rigor- ously against Johnson's criticism of his Latin Dedication in his Thesis ...
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... Latin . And as Winter ( pp . 53–54 above ) pointed out , Boswell's " reading in Latin was much more extensive than it was in Greek , " although he alluded to Homer and Aristotle in the Life of Johnson . There are also Boswell's letters ...
... Latin . And as Winter ( pp . 53–54 above ) pointed out , Boswell's " reading in Latin was much more extensive than it was in Greek , " although he alluded to Homer and Aristotle in the Life of Johnson . There are also Boswell's letters ...
Contents
Paging Through Boswells Life of Johnson | 3 |
Notes on Johnsons Hebridean Jaunt | 15 |
Johnsons Early Translations from Virgil Homer and Horace | 23 |
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