The Life of Samuel JohnsonOlms, 1973 - 639 pages |
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... such additions and improve- ments as an opportunity for a revisal might have supplied . Both editions having been , during a considerable time , out of print , and a new edition called for , in the interve- ning period.
... such additions and improve- ments as an opportunity for a revisal might have supplied . Both editions having been , during a considerable time , out of print , and a new edition called for , in the interve- ning period.
Page 372
... called their literary property , agreed , at a meet- ing of the most respectable proprietors of copy- right , " to print an elegant and accurate edi- tion of all the English poets of reputation , from Chaucer to the present time ; " and ...
... called their literary property , agreed , at a meet- ing of the most respectable proprietors of copy- right , " to print an elegant and accurate edi- tion of all the English poets of reputation , from Chaucer to the present time ; " and ...
Page 376
... called , by the collection of their works . The range to which he was limited by his employers , from Cowley to Lyttelton , extended to but fifty - two lives , including , with one or two ex- ceptions , only the modern poets . As the un ...
... called , by the collection of their works . The range to which he was limited by his employers , from Cowley to Lyttelton , extended to but fifty - two lives , including , with one or two ex- ceptions , only the modern poets . As the un ...
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