The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 3National ilustrated library, 1859 |
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... write " The Lives of the English Poets " CHAPTER IV . - 1777 . Dr. Johnson's Agreement to write " The Lives of the British Poets " -Dilly , the Book- seller - Charles O'Connor - Bishop Pearce - Prologue to Kelly's Comedy - Savage's ...
... write " The Lives of the English Poets " CHAPTER IV . - 1777 . Dr. Johnson's Agreement to write " The Lives of the British Poets " -Dilly , the Book- seller - Charles O'Connor - Bishop Pearce - Prologue to Kelly's Comedy - Savage's ...
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... writer ; he was born in Scotland , but ultimately settled in London . Besides several medical works , he was the author of a mathe- matical treatise , entitled , " Fluxionum Methodus Inversa , " which procured him admission to the Royal ...
... writer ; he was born in Scotland , but ultimately settled in London . Besides several medical works , he was the author of a mathe- matical treatise , entitled , " Fluxionum Methodus Inversa , " which procured him admission to the Royal ...
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... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the lives , which , as we are told , he accordingly performed . He was further useful in striking ...
... writer in prose , and his language full of Scotticisms , Cibber , who was a clever , lively fellow , and then ... write several of the lives , which , as we are told , he accordingly performed . He was further useful in striking ...
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... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through . " regard to that sacred principle of truth to which Dr. Johnson so rigidly adhered , according to the best of his ...
... write chiefly from their own minds . The Monthly Reviewers are duller men , and are glad to read the books through . " regard to that sacred principle of truth to which Dr. Johnson so rigidly adhered , according to the best of his ...
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... write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English language is the paper on Novelty , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . " He would not , I ...
... write that half , yet not a half of that half is good . One of the finest pieces in the English language is the paper on Novelty , yet we do not hear it talked of . It was written by Grove , a dissenting teacher . " He would not , I ...
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