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The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott - Page 89
by sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., 1. köide

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 lehte
...Dean, in the latter years of his life [in 1735], looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that book !" She begged it of him, who made some excuse at the moment ; but on her birthday he presented her...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., 1. köide

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 lehte
...Dean, in the latter years of his life [in 1735], looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that book !" She begged it of him, who made some excuse at the moment; but on her birthday he presented her with...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D. D

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 lehte
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God...faculties, * Thomas Swift was afterwards rector of Puttcnhatn in Surrey, and published a sermon in 1710, entitled "Noah's Dove, an Exhortation to peace."...
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Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 1. köide

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1826 - 334 lehte
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, « Good...book!» — an exclamation which resembles that of Marlbo rough, in a similar declension of faculties, when, gazing on his own portrait, he uttered the...
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Life of Swift. Appendix: Anecdotes of the family of Swift, a fragment ...

Walter Scott - 1827 - 550 lehte
...ohserved the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the hook, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that hook !" — an exclamation which resemhles that of Marlhorough, in a similar declension of faculties,...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Jonathan Swift

Walter Scott - 1829 - 388 lehte
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when 1 'wrote that book!" — an exclamation which resembles that of Marlborough, in a similar declension...
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Life of Jonathan Swift

Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 lehte
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, " Good God ! what a genius I had when 1 wrote that book !" — an exclamation which resembles that of Marlborough, in a similar declension...
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The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, 1. köide

Jonathan Swift - 1833 - 386 lehte
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, — " Good God ! what a genius I had when I wrote that hook." Scott's Life, p. 89. He considered this work to be the source of his favourable reception with...
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The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence

1844 - 530 lehte
...in,.an uncpns?;ipu,s soliloc[uy, i.^'.Good God,, what a genius I jb^l ,w^n u l .Wfrp^.l^at.jb^pkJ" An exclamation which resembles that of Marlborough in a similar declension of faculties, when gazing on his own por' *' '• lli" ( _'l**-"M'>'I(f l-> i^--in//i ;i - ' J,»'Uri3\'O'KI trait,...
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The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, 8. köide

Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 lehte
...observed the Dean, in the latter years of his life, looking over the Tale, when suddenly closing the book, he muttered, in an unconscious soliloquy, "Good God!...what a genius I had when I wrote that book !" — an exclaдиооп which resembles that of Marlborpugh, in a similar declension of faculties, when, gazing...
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