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But Boswell never allowed a public rebuke to pass unchallenged in private . At their first meeting , Johnson was rather rough with this young Scots stranger of twenty - three . At their third meeting , he took Johnson to task .
But Boswell never allowed a public rebuke to pass unchallenged in private . At their first meeting , Johnson was rather rough with this young Scots stranger of twenty - three . At their third meeting , he took Johnson to task .
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He never wronged man or woman ; he never uttered an unkind or malicious word ; he performed no cruel act . He never made a statement he believed , or suspected , to be false . He would run half over London to ascertain the truth .
He never wronged man or woman ; he never uttered an unkind or malicious word ; he performed no cruel act . He never made a statement he believed , or suspected , to be false . He would run half over London to ascertain the truth .
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Hardy was , however , never a townsman at heart , though he once said to the writer , ' I am , in part at least , a Londoner , ' yet he was a familiar figure in literary circles and attended social functions , not perhaps with any large ...
Hardy was , however , never a townsman at heart , though he once said to the writer , ' I am , in part at least , a Londoner , ' yet he was a familiar figure in literary circles and attended social functions , not perhaps with any large ...
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Contents
THE KAISER AFTER TWENTYFIVE YEARS | 1 |
Who was Merlin | 7 |
Macphail | 42 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 253 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1929 |
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