The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 1Dent, 1949 |
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... Shakespeare . Gradually the critics and the publishers recognized that he was a scholar as well as a journalist , and he was commissioned to undertake a Dictionary of the English Language . With a small body of assistants he ...
... Shakespeare . Gradually the critics and the publishers recognized that he was a scholar as well as a journalist , and he was commissioned to undertake a Dictionary of the English Language . With a small body of assistants he ...
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... Shakespeare's lines a little varied , 2 ،، Rod , I will honour thee for this thy duty . " That superiority over his fellows , which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ...
... Shakespeare's lines a little varied , 2 ،، Rod , I will honour thee for this thy duty . " That superiority over his fellows , which he maintained with so much dignity in his march through life , was not assumed from vanity and ...
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... Shakespeare's Mulberry - tree , by Mr. Lovibond , the ingenious authour of " The Tears of Old - May - day . " They were recommended to Mr. Colson , an eminent mathe- matician and master of an academy , by the following letter from Mr ...
... Shakespeare's Mulberry - tree , by Mr. Lovibond , the ingenious authour of " The Tears of Old - May - day . " They were recommended to Mr. Colson , an eminent mathe- matician and master of an academy , by the following letter from Mr ...
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