“The” Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1J.M. Dent, 1949 |
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... poet had contributed towards a great literary project , that had been the subject of important consideration in a former reign . 1 My friend Mr. Courtenay , whose eulogy on Johnson's Latin Poetry has been inserted in this Work , is no ...
... poet had contributed towards a great literary project , that had been the subject of important consideration in a former reign . 1 My friend Mr. Courtenay , whose eulogy on Johnson's Latin Poetry has been inserted in this Work , is no ...
Page 136
... poets , Johnson , who had been so far imposed upon as to furnish a Preface and Postscript to his work , now ... poet , whose works may possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness shall be obliterated ; to.
... poets , Johnson , who had been so far imposed upon as to furnish a Preface and Postscript to his work , now ... poet , whose works may possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness shall be obliterated ; to.
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... poet , in the collection of lives which he wrote for the body of English poetry , formed and published by the booksellers of London . His account of the melancholy depression with which Collins was severely afflicted , and which brought ...
... poet , in the collection of lives which he wrote for the body of English poetry , formed and published by the booksellers of London . His account of the melancholy depression with which Collins was severely afflicted , and which brought ...
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