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" You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what vexation I have endured in arranging a prodigious multiplicity of materials, in supplying omissions, in searching for papers, buried in different masses, and all this besides the exertion of composing... "
Young Boswell: Chapters on James Boswell, the Biographer, Based Largely on ... - Page 227
by Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1922 - 266 pages
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...mortified. I am suffering without any prospect of reward, and only from my own folly.' Ib. p. 326. ' ' You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...polishing; many a time have I thought of giving it up.' Letters of Harwell, p. 311. 1 Boswell writing to Temple in 1775, says : — ' I try to keep a journal,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...mortified. I am suffering without any prospect of reward, and only from my own folly.' Ib. p. 326. 1 'You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity,...polishing; many a time have I thought of giving it up.' Letters of Boswell, p. 311. 1 Boswell writing to Temple in 1775, says : — ' I try to keep a journal,...
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Letters of James Boswell: Addressed to the Rev. W. J. Temple. Now First Pub ...

James Boswell - 1857 - 464 pages
...evenings : but I reckon that a third of the Work is settled, so that I shall get to press very soon. You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...thought of giving it up. However, though I shall be uneasilysensible of its many deficiencies, it will certainly be to the world a very valuable and peculiar...
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Letters of James Boswell, Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple: Now First ...

James Boswell - Authors - 1857 - 474 pages
...evenings : but I reckon that a third of the Work is settled, so that I shall get to press very soon. You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...prodigious multiplicity of materials, in supplying omissions,in searching for papers, buried in different masses, and all this besides the exertion of...
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Publications, Volume 7

1874 - 382 pages
...evenings ; but I reckon that a third of the work is settled, so that I shall get to press very soon. You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...this besides the exertion of composing and polishing, a time have I thought of giving it up. However, though Clone's Edition of Shakspero, in ten volumes,...
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Life of James Boswell (of Auchinleck): With an Account of His ..., Volume 2

Percy Fitzgerald - Authors, Scottish - 1891 - 338 pages
...what course he should take—whether " to game," as he called it, with his book, or dispose of it. " You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...polishing. Many a time have I thought of giving it up." He little thought when * He had at first intended it to be very short and summary :— " It appears...
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Life of James Boswell (of Auchinleck): With an Account of His ..., Volume 2

Percy Fitzgerald - Authors, Scottish - 1891 - 304 pages
...what course he should take — whether " to game," as he called it, with his book, or dispose of it " You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...composing and polishing. Many a time have I thought of yiving it up" He little thought when * He had at first intended it to be very short and summary : —...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The age of Johnson

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1913 - 594 pages
...imagine,' he wrote in 1789, ' what labour, what perplexity, what vexation I have endured in arranging » prodigious multiplicity of materials, in supplying...polishing : many a time have I thought of giving it up.' "Johnson and Boswell But he was confident in the result It was to be not merely the best biography...
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Letters of James Boswell to the Rev. W. J. Temple

James Boswell - Authors, Scottish - 1908 - 398 pages
...evenings : but I reckon that a third of the Work is settled, so that I shall get to press very soon. You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...time have I thought of giving it up. However, though 1 shall be uneasily sensible of its many deficiencies, it will certainly be to the world a very valuable...
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Boswell, the Biographer

George Mallory - 1912 - 364 pages
...in London to receive Malone's help, Malone who is ' Johnsonianissimus,' in revising the ' Life ' : You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...polishing : many a time have I thought of giving it up. And yet he has the firmest conviction that the book will be a masterpiece ; it will be an unparalleled...
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