The Quarterly Review, Volume 159William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1885 |
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... Johnson and his circle , copied in miniature from the pages of Boswell . The most captious critic cannot complain of ... Johnson's character which will be prized by readers of a very different class . His essay on Johnson's literary ...
... Johnson and his circle , copied in miniature from the pages of Boswell . The most captious critic cannot complain of ... Johnson's character which will be prized by readers of a very different class . His essay on Johnson's literary ...
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... Johnson , and to ascertain how much of the shrewd wisdom and humor of more modern imitators has had its origin in ... Johnson's criti- cisms in these Lives ' has failed to exercise a distinct and appre- ciable effect on the reputation of ...
... Johnson , and to ascertain how much of the shrewd wisdom and humor of more modern imitators has had its origin in ... Johnson's criti- cisms in these Lives ' has failed to exercise a distinct and appre- ciable effect on the reputation of ...
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... Johnson exclude the possibility of an apathetic judgment . All his powers - his marvellously ready insight , his pitiless detection . of cant , his unswerving rectitude of aim , and his intolerance of what he believed to be false - made ...
... Johnson exclude the possibility of an apathetic judgment . All his powers - his marvellously ready insight , his pitiless detection . of cant , his unswerving rectitude of aim , and his intolerance of what he believed to be false - made ...
Contents
London 1884 | 450 |
Hansards Parliamentary Debates 18821884 | 480 |
Parliamentary Debates March 1885 | 527 |
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