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Page 163
... Traveller alters Goldsmith's in- tellectual standing at the Club . They are astonished that a newspaper essayist - a bookseller's drudge - should have written such a poem . They cannot reconcile his heedless garrulity with the sound ...
... Traveller alters Goldsmith's in- tellectual standing at the Club . They are astonished that a newspaper essayist - a bookseller's drudge - should have written such a poem . They cannot reconcile his heedless garrulity with the sound ...
Page 164
... Traveller is so well established that Mr. Fox's praise can- not augment it , nor his censure diminish it . " Crusty Samuel Johnson is certainly stirred by its power . Boswell mentions that once during their tour of the Heb- rides ...
... Traveller is so well established that Mr. Fox's praise can- not augment it , nor his censure diminish it . " Crusty Samuel Johnson is certainly stirred by its power . Boswell mentions that once during their tour of the Heb- rides ...
Page 165
... Traveller on what she has herself said at a party in her brother's house some days before . It is suddenly proposed , as a social game after supper , to toast ugly women and have them matched by ugly men . Whereupon one of the gentlemen ...
... Traveller on what she has herself said at a party in her brother's house some days before . It is suddenly proposed , as a social game after supper , to toast ugly women and have them matched by ugly men . Whereupon one of the gentlemen ...
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