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Life of Johnson, Volume 4, 1780-1784

Note 245 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (continued 2)

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Boswell wrote of Gibbon in 1779:—'He is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow, and poisons our Literary Club to me.' Letters of Boswell, p.242. See ante, ii.443, note 1.

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