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Page 64
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 . ' Poh , poh , ' he
said ...
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 . ' Poh , poh , ' he
said ...
Page 71
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
gave ...
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
gave ...
Page 318
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 interest in their
...
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 interest in their
...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, 253. köide |
| 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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