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... poem , in the London Chronicle ; acknowl . Review of Goldsmith's Traveller , a poem , in the Critical Review ; acknowl . 1765. The Plays of William Shakspeare , in eight volumes , 8vo , with notes ; acknowl . 1766. The Fountains , a ...
... poem , in the London Chronicle ; acknowl . Review of Goldsmith's Traveller , a poem , in the Critical Review ; acknowl . 1765. The Plays of William Shakspeare , in eight volumes , 8vo , with notes ; acknowl . 1766. The Fountains , a ...
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... poems published by Mr. James Macpherson as translations from Ossian ; intern . evid . 1784. List of the Authors of the Universal History , deposited in the British Museum , and printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for December , this ...
... poems published by Mr. James Macpherson as translations from Ossian ; intern . evid . 1784. List of the Authors of the Universal History , deposited in the British Museum , and printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for December , this ...
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... poems , translations , and minor essays appeared in the St. James's Chroni- cle , and other publications of the day , purporting to be from the pen of Johnson . We have care- fully examined these , but admitted none except on the best ...
... poems , translations , and minor essays appeared in the St. James's Chroni- cle , and other publications of the day , purporting to be from the pen of Johnson . We have care- fully examined these , but admitted none except on the best ...
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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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