Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1 |
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Page xxvii
... REYNOLDS , 1756. From the engraving by Heath , 1791 FACSIMILE of BOSWELL'S REVISED PROOF of the Life in the possession of Mr. R. B. Adam FACSIMILE of JOHNSON'S LETTER to WILLIAM STRAHAN , 20 Jan. 1759 , in the possession of Mr. R. B. ...
... REYNOLDS , 1756. From the engraving by Heath , 1791 FACSIMILE of BOSWELL'S REVISED PROOF of the Life in the possession of Mr. R. B. Adam FACSIMILE of JOHNSON'S LETTER to WILLIAM STRAHAN , 20 Jan. 1759 , in the possession of Mr. R. B. ...
Page 245
... Reynolds used also to visit there , and thus they met 1 . Mr. Reynolds , as I have observed above 2 , had , from the first reading of his Life of Savage , conceived a very high admiration of Johnson's powers of writing . His ...
... Reynolds used also to visit there , and thus they met 1 . Mr. Reynolds , as I have observed above 2 , had , from the first reading of his Life of Savage , conceived a very high admiration of Johnson's powers of writing . His ...
Page 246
... Reynolds had the habit of thinking for himself . The ladies were regretting the death of a friend , to whom they owed great obligations ; upon which Reynolds observed , ' You have , however , the comfort of being relieved from a burthen ...
... Reynolds had the habit of thinking for himself . The ladies were regretting the death of a friend , to whom they owed great obligations ; upon which Reynolds observed , ' You have , however , the comfort of being relieved from a burthen ...
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DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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