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Page xlv
... Garrick , & c .; but , on second thoughts , he resolved to have him buried in the plainest and most private manner possible , observing that the most pompous funerals are soon past and forgotten , and that it would be much more pru ...
... Garrick , & c .; but , on second thoughts , he resolved to have him buried in the plainest and most private manner possible , observing that the most pompous funerals are soon past and forgotten , and that it would be much more pru ...
Page xlvi
... Garrick de- scribed him as one , ' for shortness call'd Noll , Who wrote like an angel , but talk'd like poor poll . ' Sir Joshua Reynolds mentioned to Boswell that he frequently had heard Goldsmith talk warmly of the pleasure of being ...
... Garrick de- scribed him as one , ' for shortness call'd Noll , Who wrote like an angel , but talk'd like poor poll . ' Sir Joshua Reynolds mentioned to Boswell that he frequently had heard Goldsmith talk warmly of the pleasure of being ...
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... Garrick came in , full dressed , made many apologies for being so much later than he intended , but he had been unexpectedly detained at the House of Lords , and Lord Camden had absolutely insisted upon setting him down at the door of ...
... Garrick came in , full dressed , made many apologies for being so much later than he intended , but he had been unexpectedly detained at the House of Lords , and Lord Camden had absolutely insisted upon setting him down at the door of ...
Page lviii
... Garrick , and see him courted everywhere , and in the height of splendour , whilst he perhaps had only to retire impransus to the Temple . 9 About the time that I think Boswell wrote a prologue in compliment to Johnson at Lichfield , a ...
... Garrick , and see him courted everywhere , and in the height of splendour , whilst he perhaps had only to retire impransus to the Temple . 9 About the time that I think Boswell wrote a prologue in compliment to Johnson at Lichfield , a ...
Page lx
... Garrick's to ' Barbarossa ; ' but what is a part of it ? I particularly recollect , that when Goldsmith was near com- pleting his Natural History , ' he sent to Dr. Percy and me , to state that he wished not to return to town , from ...
... Garrick's to ' Barbarossa ; ' but what is a part of it ? I particularly recollect , that when Goldsmith was near com- pleting his Natural History , ' he sent to Dr. Percy and me , to state that he wished not to return to town , from ...
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