Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 524
... Johnson's seventieth . Johnson was born in 1709. If , therefore , Mrs. Thrale's thirty - fifth year coincided with Johnson's seventieth , she could have been only twenty - one years old in 1765. This is not all . Mr. Croker , in another ...
... Johnson's seventieth . Johnson was born in 1709. If , therefore , Mrs. Thrale's thirty - fifth year coincided with Johnson's seventieth , she could have been only twenty - one years old in 1765. This is not all . Mr. Croker , in another ...
Page 528
... Johnson.1 " It was in the year 1761 , " says Mr. Croker , " that Gold- smith published his Vicar of Wakefield . This leads the editor to observe a more serious inaccuracy of Mrs. Piozzi , than Mr. Boswell notices , when he says Johnson ...
... Johnson.1 " It was in the year 1761 , " says Mr. Croker , " that Gold- smith published his Vicar of Wakefield . This leads the editor to observe a more serious inaccuracy of Mrs. Piozzi , than Mr. Boswell notices , when he says Johnson ...
Page 532
... Johnson , " I recommended my ◊ p . " " These letters , " says the editor , " ( which Dr. Strahan seems not to have understood ) probably mean Ovyro piλo , departed friends . " " 1 Johnson was not a first - rate Greek scholar ; but he ...
... Johnson , " I recommended my ◊ p . " " These letters , " says the editor , " ( which Dr. Strahan seems not to have understood ) probably mean Ovyro piλo , departed friends . " " 1 Johnson was not a first - rate Greek scholar ; but he ...
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