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... JOSEPH WARTON . " DEARSIR , - I ought to have written to you before now , but I ought to do many things which I do not ; nor can I , indeed , claim any merit from this letter ; for being desired by the authors and proprietor of the ...
... JOSEPH WARTON . " DEARSIR , - I ought to have written to you before now , but I ought to do many things which I do not ; nor can I , indeed , claim any merit from this letter ; for being desired by the authors and proprietor of the ...
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... Warton ; but labouring under the most deplorable languor of body and dejection of mind . " In a letter to Dr. Joseph Warton , written some months before , ( March 8 , 1754 , ) Dr. Johnson thus speaks of Collins : " But how little can we ...
... Warton ; but labouring under the most deplorable languor of body and dejection of mind . " In a letter to Dr. Joseph Warton , written some months before , ( March 8 , 1754 , ) Dr. Johnson thus speaks of Collins : " But how little can we ...
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... Joseph Warton , by the rev . John Wood , A. M. 4to . 1806 . Mr. Collins , who was the son of a hatter at Chichester , was born December 25 , 1720 , and was released from the dismal state here so pathetically described in 1756. MALONE ...
... Joseph Warton , by the rev . John Wood , A. M. 4to . 1806 . Mr. Collins , who was the son of a hatter at Chichester , was born December 25 , 1720 , and was released from the dismal state here so pathetically described in 1756. MALONE ...
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... Joseph Warton , in consequence of having read a few pages of that gentleman's newly - published Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope . The only paragraph in it that re- spects Johnson's personal history is this : " For my part I ...
... Joseph Warton , in consequence of having read a few pages of that gentleman's newly - published Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope . The only paragraph in it that re- spects Johnson's personal history is this : " For my part I ...
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... Joseph Warton told me that Johnson said of him , " He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature . " - BOSWELL . * The northern bard mentioned just before . When I ÆTAT . 54. ] 327 DR . JOHNSON .
... Joseph Warton told me that Johnson said of him , " He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature . " - BOSWELL . * The northern bard mentioned just before . When I ÆTAT . 54. ] 327 DR . JOHNSON .
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