The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... carefully perused most of the memoirs of Johnson's con- temporaries , his life by Hawkins , Anderson , and Piozzi , and all the papers relating to him dis- persed through the Gentleman's Magazine . We have also before X PREFATORY NOTICE .
... carefully perused most of the memoirs of Johnson's con- temporaries , his life by Hawkins , Anderson , and Piozzi , and all the papers relating to him dis- persed through the Gentleman's Magazine . We have also before X PREFATORY NOTICE .
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James Boswell. persed through the Gentleman's Magazine . We have also before us a mass of original papers , pur- chased at the Boswell sale ; and have even taken pains to court conversations with some old ser- vants who remembered ...
James Boswell. persed through the Gentleman's Magazine . We have also before us a mass of original papers , pur- chased at the Boswell sale ; and have even taken pains to court conversations with some old ser- vants who remembered ...
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... Gentleman's Magazine who subscribes himself Sciolus , furnishes the following supplement : " A lady of my acquaintance remembers to have heard her uncle sing those homely stanzas more than forty - five years ago . He repeated the second ...
... Gentleman's Magazine who subscribes himself Sciolus , furnishes the following supplement : " A lady of my acquaintance remembers to have heard her uncle sing those homely stanzas more than forty - five years ago . He repeated the second ...
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... Gentleman's Magazine , part 2 , page 54 , in an article entitled the Calamities of Authors , there occurs the following anecdote on the above negociation . " In the case of the Lives of the Poets , which drew forth the encomium of ...
... Gentleman's Magazine , part 2 , page 54 , in an article entitled the Calamities of Authors , there occurs the following anecdote on the above negociation . " In the case of the Lives of the Poets , which drew forth the encomium of ...
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... Gentleman's Magazine , 1785. The editor of that miscellany , in which Johnson wrote for several years , seems justly to think that every fragment of so great a man is worthy of being preserved . - Boswell . which , were I able to do it ...
... Gentleman's Magazine , 1785. The editor of that miscellany , in which Johnson wrote for several years , seems justly to think that every fragment of so great a man is worthy of being preserved . - Boswell . which , were I able to do it ...
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