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Page 12
... spent an evening not with the great clubman , not with the Great Lexicographer , but with the author of The Rambler . Unlike his readers to - day , Boswell was primarily drawn to Johnson by the amazing universality ' of his genius as a ...
... spent an evening not with the great clubman , not with the Great Lexicographer , but with the author of The Rambler . Unlike his readers to - day , Boswell was primarily drawn to Johnson by the amazing universality ' of his genius as a ...
Page 23
... spent at home in painful reflec- tion ' . It was not a purely literary gathering ; three mem- bers of the club were physicians ( including Johnson's very dear friend , Richard Bathurst , who could not tolerate fools or rogues or Whigs ...
... spent at home in painful reflec- tion ' . It was not a purely literary gathering ; three mem- bers of the club were physicians ( including Johnson's very dear friend , Richard Bathurst , who could not tolerate fools or rogues or Whigs ...
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... spent the hour well I know not : for here I first conceived the thought of this narration . The narration was published in 1775 and was entitled A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland . By all except professed students of Johnson ...
... spent the hour well I know not : for here I first conceived the thought of this narration . The narration was published in 1775 and was entitled A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland . By all except professed students of Johnson ...
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