Boswell's Life of Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebride and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1934 - 556 pages |
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... poem , & c . ' It is probable that in these few days the poem was written . If we can assume that Savage's elegy was sent to the Court not later than March 1 - it may have been sent earlier — and that John- son's poem was written in the ...
... poem , & c . ' It is probable that in these few days the poem was written . If we can assume that Savage's elegy was sent to the Court not later than March 1 - it may have been sent earlier — and that John- son's poem was written in the ...
Page 166
... poem entitled ' The Bastard , ' a line , in which the fancied superiority of one ' stamped in Nature's mint with extasy 2 , ' is contrasted with a regular lawful descendant of some great and ancient family : ' No tenth transmitter of a ...
... poem entitled ' The Bastard , ' a line , in which the fancied superiority of one ' stamped in Nature's mint with extasy 2 , ' is contrasted with a regular lawful descendant of some great and ancient family : ' No tenth transmitter of a ...
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... poem for Dodsley's Collection of Poems , 1755. > I ' Nov. 25 , 1748. I received of Mr. Dodsley fifteen guineas , for which I assign to him the right of copy of an imitation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal , written by me ; reserving to ...
... poem for Dodsley's Collection of Poems , 1755. > I ' Nov. 25 , 1748. I received of Mr. Dodsley fifteen guineas , for which I assign to him the right of copy of an imitation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal , written by me ; reserving to ...
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DR HILLS DEDICATION TO JOWETT | xxix |
TITLEPAGE OF THE THIRD EDITION | xlvii |
Advertisement to the Life | 23 |
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