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Is it a fit of humour ? If it be , you have the victory . My thoughts are at present
employed in guessing the reason of your silence . ' Boswell wrote at once ,
confessing that he had taken advantage of a supine indolence of mind to put
Johnson ' s ...
Is it a fit of humour ? If it be , you have the victory . My thoughts are at present
employed in guessing the reason of your silence . ' Boswell wrote at once ,
confessing that he had taken advantage of a supine indolence of mind to put
Johnson ' s ...
Page 64
True , he once assigned to him a worthy place in the · Dunciad ' ; he rebuked him
for giving a shilling when a sixpence would suffice : ' I will not be baited with what
and why ' ; they grew warm over the American Colonies , and were willing to ...
True , he once assigned to him a worthy place in the · Dunciad ' ; he rebuked him
for giving a shilling when a sixpence would suffice : ' I will not be baited with what
and why ' ; they grew warm over the American Colonies , and were willing to ...
Page 389
A witty Frenchman once said , “ Le poste donne les qualités . ' One is almost
tempted to ascribe this as the reason for the Foreign Secretary ' s almost
miraculous assumption of knowledge of a most intricate and difficult question . It
is only fair to ...
A witty Frenchman once said , “ Le poste donne les qualités . ' One is almost
tempted to ascribe this as the reason for the Foreign Secretary ' s almost
miraculous assumption of knowledge of a most intricate and difficult question . It
is only fair to ...
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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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