The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... literary productions of the eighteenth century . OXFORD , Feb. 1827 . Authors forming part of the Oxford English Classics already published . The WORKS of Dr. JOHNSON , newly arranged and cor- rected , with notes , selected and original ...
... literary productions of the eighteenth century . OXFORD , Feb. 1827 . Authors forming part of the Oxford English Classics already published . The WORKS of Dr. JOHNSON , newly arranged and cor- rected , with notes , selected and original ...
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... literary world . The text of Burmann forms the basis of the one adopted in the present edition , which has been most carefully collated and revised . The researches of the most distinguished commentators , ancient and modern , have been ...
... literary world . The text of Burmann forms the basis of the one adopted in the present edition , which has been most carefully collated and revised . The researches of the most distinguished commentators , ancient and modern , have been ...
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... literary life , had a dispute concerning that poet , of whom Mr Warton , in his Obser- vations on Spenser's Fairy Queen , gave some account which Huggins attempted to answer with violence , and said , ' I will militate no longer against ...
... literary life , had a dispute concerning that poet , of whom Mr Warton , in his Obser- vations on Spenser's Fairy Queen , gave some account which Huggins attempted to answer with violence , and said , ' I will militate no longer against ...
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... literary character of his age . Amidst a cloudy confusion of words , which hath of late too often passed in Scotland for metaphysicks , he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : : - " Dr . Johnson has re ...
... literary character of his age . Amidst a cloudy confusion of words , which hath of late too often passed in Scotland for metaphysicks , he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : : - " Dr . Johnson has re ...
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... literary ambition , " Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabick ... Literary Club in 1773 , and died August 11th , 1786. — Malone . Literary Club , Mr. Burke began by saying , that 22 ...
... literary ambition , " Had this happened twenty years ago , I should have gone to Constantinople to learn Arabick ... Literary Club in 1773 , and died August 11th , 1786. — Malone . Literary Club , Mr. Burke began by saying , that 22 ...
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