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... memory works very differ- ently . It will be easier to show this if we say something of Boswell first . The nature of Boswell's memory has been made the subject of a brilliant investigation by Geoffrey Scott , un- fortunately in a work ...
... memory works very differ- ently . It will be easier to show this if we say something of Boswell first . The nature of Boswell's memory has been made the subject of a brilliant investigation by Geoffrey Scott , un- fortunately in a work ...
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... memory , on the con- trary , was an object of general astonishment from the time he was six years old . ' Like most memories which history chooses to distinguish as prodigious , his was essentially verbal and liter- ary . He never ...
... memory , on the con- trary , was an object of general astonishment from the time he was six years old . ' Like most memories which history chooses to distinguish as prodigious , his was essentially verbal and liter- ary . He never ...
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... memory in which the imagination was made to work within the limits of literal circumstance ; finally , the power to express this in words -these things were given Boswell by his time . In many respects wildly romantic , he was in his re ...
... memory in which the imagination was made to work within the limits of literal circumstance ; finally , the power to express this in words -these things were given Boswell by his time . In many respects wildly romantic , he was in his re ...
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DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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