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Dr Johnson without Boswell : An American Interpretation A. L. ROWSE much better than nothing that one would rather exist even. W. Jackson Bate . Samuel Johnson ( Chatto & Windus , £ 12.95 ) . ' I am willing to love all mankind , except ...
Dr Johnson without Boswell : An American Interpretation A. L. ROWSE much better than nothing that one would rather exist even. W. Jackson Bate . Samuel Johnson ( Chatto & Windus , £ 12.95 ) . ' I am willing to love all mankind , except ...
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You could wear ( or , better still , watch others wearing ) a cockeyed assortment of chromatic apparel which in saner corners of the U.S.A. would have landed you in the local nut - house . You could be a party boy and indulge in pranks ...
You could wear ( or , better still , watch others wearing ) a cockeyed assortment of chromatic apparel which in saner corners of the U.S.A. would have landed you in the local nut - house . You could be a party boy and indulge in pranks ...
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The blurb says ' it is full of things better left unsaid , hackneyed phrases , idioms battered into senselessness , infuriating Gallicisms , once - familiar quotations and , longo intervallo , tags from the ancient classics ' .
The blurb says ' it is full of things better left unsaid , hackneyed phrases , idioms battered into senselessness , infuriating Gallicisms , once - familiar quotations and , longo intervallo , tags from the ancient classics ' .
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