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... less than God // These blessings , Friend , a Deity bestow'd : / For never can I deem him less than God ; 1. 9 , firstlings / Firstlings.2 It may be of some significance that one example of the use of " firstlings " in Johnson's ...
... less than God // These blessings , Friend , a Deity bestow'd : / For never can I deem him less than God ; 1. 9 , firstlings / Firstlings.2 It may be of some significance that one example of the use of " firstlings " in Johnson's ...
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Arthur Sherbo. Chapter VI Boswell's Small ( ? ) Latin and Less Greek ... Frederick A. Pottle notes that " Scots education produced fewer scholars , but the general average of learning in Scotland was considerably higher than ... Less Greek •
Arthur Sherbo. Chapter VI Boswell's Small ( ? ) Latin and Less Greek ... Frederick A. Pottle notes that " Scots education produced fewer scholars , but the general average of learning in Scotland was considerably higher than ... Less Greek •
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... less than horrible imaginings " ( I : 116 ) .10 Number LI is on suicide , which inevitably brought to mind Hamlet's " gloomy soliloquy , " which Boswell also character- ized as " a capital piece of philosophical reasoning " ( II : 136 ...
... less than horrible imaginings " ( I : 116 ) .10 Number LI is on suicide , which inevitably brought to mind Hamlet's " gloomy soliloquy , " which Boswell also character- ized as " a capital piece of philosophical reasoning " ( II : 136 ...
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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