Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
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mouthed to pester the narratorwith trivial questions; but Boswell was incapable ofrealising this. When Boswell, in his toadying spirit, was sayingthat in any conversation Johnson was entitled to thehonour of unquestionable superiority, and Goldsmith,with a truer conception of the art and pleasure… … Z^R-ick: Cou/zr Th£ T£MPL£ GOLDSMITH, REYNOLDS, ETC. 85 pany. He goes on to say : He was still moremortified when, talking in a company with fluentvivacity and, as he flattered himself, to the admirationof all who were present, a German who sat next to
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