Who's who in Boswell?Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and sold by B. Blackwell, 1935 - Biography & Autobiography - 366 pages |
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... showed remarkable poetical skill . His father was a butcher at Newcastle - on - Tyne . Injury from a cleaver left Mark with a permanent limp . After education in his native town , he was sent by subscription to Edinburgh , to study for ...
... showed remarkable poetical skill . His father was a butcher at Newcastle - on - Tyne . Injury from a cleaver left Mark with a permanent limp . After education in his native town , he was sent by subscription to Edinburgh , to study for ...
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... showed the possibility of describing London life , high or low , without offence . Her comedy , Love and Fashion , though accepted by Covent Garden in 1800 , was never acted . Her last novel , the Wanderer , published in 1814 , after ...
... showed the possibility of describing London life , high or low , without offence . Her comedy , Love and Fashion , though accepted by Covent Garden in 1800 , was never acted . Her last novel , the Wanderer , published in 1814 , after ...
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... showed ' point- ed vivacity and much of a gentlemanly spirit . ' Dalrymple insisted , says Boswell , that ' the two noblest animals in the world were a Scotch High- lander and an English sailor . ' Dalrymple's criticism that ...
... showed ' point- ed vivacity and much of a gentlemanly spirit . ' Dalrymple insisted , says Boswell , that ' the two noblest animals in the world were a Scotch High- lander and an English sailor . ' Dalrymple's criticism that ...
Contents
SAMUEL JOHNSON LL D 17091784 | 2 |
CONTEMPORARY BISHOPS OF LICHFIELD | 8 |
JOHNSON IN SCOTLAND | 14 |
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