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... poem , in the Critical Review ; acknowl . 1765. The Plays of William Shakspeare , in eight volumes , 8vo . with ... Poets afterwards published with the title of XX CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE.
... poem , in the Critical Review ; acknowl . 1765. The Plays of William Shakspeare , in eight volumes , 8vo . with ... Poets afterwards published with the title of XX CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE.
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... Poets ; acknowl . Argument on the importance of the Registration of Deeds ; dictated to me for an election committee ... poems published by Mr. James Macpherson as translations from Ossian ; intern . evid . 1784. List of the ...
... Poets ; acknowl . Argument on the importance of the Registration of Deeds ; dictated to me for an election committee ... poems published by Mr. James Macpherson as translations from Ossian ; intern . evid . 1784. List of the ...
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... lord chief justice Wilmot . See Addisoniana . I. Biog . Brit . and Dr. Anderson , Life of Johnson , prefixed to the works of the British Poets . - ED . I believe , he was exceeded by no man of 18 [ 1712-1728 . THE LIFE OF.
... lord chief justice Wilmot . See Addisoniana . I. Biog . Brit . and Dr. Anderson , Life of Johnson , prefixed to the works of the British Poets . - ED . I believe , he was exceeded by no man of 18 [ 1712-1728 . THE LIFE OF.
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... Poems collected by a person of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that miscellany Johnson's translation of the Messiah ap- peared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poeticks , Ex alieno ingenio poeta , ex ...
... Poems collected by a person of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that miscellany Johnson's translation of the Messiah ap- peared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poeticks , Ex alieno ingenio poeta , ex ...
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... poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so early , that the speech of the ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that Horace's odes were the compositions in which he took most delight , and it was long before he ...
... poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so early , that the speech of the ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that Horace's odes were the compositions in which he took most delight , and it was long before he ...
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