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... told Mrs. Thrale how he used " to teize Garrick by commendations of the tomb scene in Congreve's Mourning Bride , protesting that Shakespeare had in the same line of excellence nothing as good : ' All which is strictly true ( said he ) ...
... told Mrs. Thrale how he used " to teize Garrick by commendations of the tomb scene in Congreve's Mourning Bride , protesting that Shakespeare had in the same line of excellence nothing as good : ' All which is strictly true ( said he ) ...
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... told a friend " Whoever loads life with unnecessary scruples , vokes the attention of others on his conduct , and incurs the cen- sure of singularity without reaping the reward of superior virtue " ( Life , II : 72 , n . 1 ) . He told ...
... told a friend " Whoever loads life with unnecessary scruples , vokes the attention of others on his conduct , and incurs the cen- sure of singularity without reaping the reward of superior virtue " ( Life , II : 72 , n . 1 ) . He told ...
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... told me Yesterday that you got by heart six Pages of Machiavel's History once , & repeated ' em thirty Years af- terwards Word for Word . O why this indeed is a gross Lye , says Johnson - I never read the Book at all . " There is no ...
... told me Yesterday that you got by heart six Pages of Machiavel's History once , & repeated ' em thirty Years af- terwards Word for Word . O why this indeed is a gross Lye , says Johnson - I never read the Book at all . " There is no ...
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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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