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... defined as " A quart . " OED does not specify a measure in its definition . Could Johnson have drunk three bottles of port at a sitting and not have been " the worse for it " ? III : 346 . Boswell quotes a four - line stanza rejected by ...
... defined as " A quart . " OED does not specify a measure in its definition . Could Johnson have drunk three bottles of port at a sitting and not have been " the worse for it " ? III : 346 . Boswell quotes a four - line stanza rejected by ...
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... defined in the edition as " Appearances without realities " ( p . 89 ) is not so defined in the 1755 Dictionary , but appears as " Something only apparent , not real " in its fourth definition in 1773 . S.C. Roberts , in his own notes ...
... defined in the edition as " Appearances without realities " ( p . 89 ) is not so defined in the 1755 Dictionary , but appears as " Something only apparent , not real " in its fourth definition in 1773 . S.C. Roberts , in his own notes ...
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... definition of " fondness " and his non - acquiescence in the definition of " a most eminent logi- cian . " This definition is not in Johnson's Dictionary . 24 : " When Foote told a story at dinner time , ' said Dr. Johnson , I resolved ...
... definition of " fondness " and his non - acquiescence in the definition of " a most eminent logi- cian . " This definition is not in Johnson's Dictionary . 24 : " When Foote told a story at dinner time , ' said Dr. Johnson , I resolved ...
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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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