The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order : a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons : and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published : the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished : in Three Volumes ...Henry Baldwin, 1793 |
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... translation of Father Paul Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent . acknowl . [ N. B. As this work after fome sheets were printed , fuddenly stopped , I know not whether any part of it is now to be found . ] For the Gentleman's ...
... translation of Father Paul Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent . acknowl . [ N. B. As this work after fome sheets were printed , fuddenly stopped , I know not whether any part of it is now to be found . ] For the Gentleman's ...
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... Translation of Taffo . acknowl . 1763. Account of the Detection of the Impofture of the Cock- Lane Ghoft , published in the Newfpapers and Gen- tleman's Magazine , acknowl . 1764. Part of a Review of Grainger's " Sugar Cane , a Poem ...
... Translation of Taffo . acknowl . 1763. Account of the Detection of the Impofture of the Cock- Lane Ghoft , published in the Newfpapers and Gen- tleman's Magazine , acknowl . 1764. Part of a Review of Grainger's " Sugar Cane , a Poem ...
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... only by prudence and by virtue . The account of Thuanus is with great propriety faid by its 5 Plutarch's Life of Alexander , Langhorne's Translation . authour authour to have been written , that it might lay ∞ THE LIFE OF.
... only by prudence and by virtue . The account of Thuanus is with great propriety faid by its 5 Plutarch's Life of Alexander , Langhorne's Translation . authour authour to have been written , that it might lay ∞ THE LIFE OF.
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... Translation of the Meffiah appeared , with this modeft motto from Scaliger's Poeticks , " Ex alieno ingenio Poeta , ex fuo tantum verfificator . " I am not ignorant that critical objections have been made to this and other fpecimens of ...
... Translation of the Meffiah appeared , with this modeft motto from Scaliger's Poeticks , " Ex alieno ingenio Poeta , ex fuo tantum verfificator . " I am not ignorant that critical objections have been made to this and other fpecimens of ...
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... ; and is the authour of many Latin verfe tranflations in the Gentleman's Magazine . One of them is a translation of " My time , O ye Mufes , was happily spent , & c . " " His ftudies had been fo various , that I " His 56 THE LIFE OF.
... ; and is the authour of many Latin verfe tranflations in the Gentleman's Magazine . One of them is a translation of " My time , O ye Mufes , was happily spent , & c . " " His ftudies had been fo various , that I " His 56 THE LIFE OF.
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