The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... late . DUNCIAD . The line on Philips borrowed from another poem . Pope did not increase the difficulties of writing . Poetæ pullorum . * Ruffhead's Life of Pope . + In the life , Johnson says , " Expletives he very early rejected from ...
... late . DUNCIAD . The line on Philips borrowed from another poem . Pope did not increase the difficulties of writing . Poetæ pullorum . * Ruffhead's Life of Pope . + In the life , Johnson says , " Expletives he very early rejected from ...
Page 189
... late in London , yet that Dr. Johnson had observed , that the number of inhabitants was not increased . JOHNSON . Why , sir , the bills of mortality prove that no more people die now than formerly : so it is plain no more live . The ...
... late in London , yet that Dr. Johnson had observed , that the number of inhabitants was not increased . JOHNSON . Why , sir , the bills of mortality prove that no more people die now than formerly : so it is plain no more live . The ...
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... late William Innys , bookseller , in St. Paul's Church - yard , the sum of two hundred pounds ; to Mrs. White , my ... late of Leicester , and Whiting , daughter of Thomas Johnson , late of Coventry , and the grand - daughter of the said ...
... late William Innys , bookseller , in St. Paul's Church - yard , the sum of two hundred pounds ; to Mrs. White , my ... late of Leicester , and Whiting , daughter of Thomas Johnson , late of Coventry , and the grand - daughter of the said ...
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