Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 11
... course be for a time the chief subject of conversation in the common room of Magdalene . His whim about Arabic learning would naturally be mentioned . and would give occasion to some jokes about the probability of his turning Mussulman ...
... course be for a time the chief subject of conversation in the common room of Magdalene . His whim about Arabic learning would naturally be mentioned . and would give occasion to some jokes about the probability of his turning Mussulman ...
Page 23
... course which Mr. Croker ought to have taken is quite clear . He should have reprinted Boswell's narrative precisely as Boswell wrote it ; and in the notes or the appendix he should have placed any anecdote which he might have thought it ...
... course which Mr. Croker ought to have taken is quite clear . He should have reprinted Boswell's narrative precisely as Boswell wrote it ; and in the notes or the appendix he should have placed any anecdote which he might have thought it ...
Page 29
... course of conversation . Of those observations we do not remember one which is above the intellectual capacity of a boy of fifteen . He has printed many of his own letters , and in these letters he is always ranting or twaddling . Logic ...
... course of conversation . Of those observations we do not remember one which is above the intellectual capacity of a boy of fifteen . He has printed many of his own letters , and in these letters he is always ranting or twaddling . Logic ...
Page 35
... course of his life the liberality to which he was himself so greatly indebted . The Tory leaders , Harley and Bolingbroke in particular , vied with the chiefs of the Whig party in zeal for the encourage- ment of letters . But soon after ...
... course of his life the liberality to which he was himself so greatly indebted . The Tory leaders , Harley and Bolingbroke in particular , vied with the chiefs of the Whig party in zeal for the encourage- ment of letters . But soon after ...
Page 39
... seen them as a beggar . He now came among them as a companion . The demand for amusement and instruction had , during the course of twenty years , been gradually increasing . The price of literary labour had risen ; and those rising men.
... seen them as a beggar . He now came among them as a companion . The demand for amusement and instruction had , during the course of twenty years , been gradually increasing . The price of literary labour had risen ; and those rising men.
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