The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprising a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons ...Routledge, 1867 - 526 pages |
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... mentioned in an essay professedly reviewing the principal English poets , would ascertain it not to be the production of Johnson . But there is here no occasion to resort to internal evidence ; for my Lord Bishop of Salisbury ( Dr ...
... mentioned in an essay professedly reviewing the principal English poets , would ascertain it not to be the production of Johnson . But there is here no occasion to resort to internal evidence ; for my Lord Bishop of Salisbury ( Dr ...
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... mentioned from hasty recollection ; for it is sufficiently evident , that his composition of them began November 19 , 1740 , and ended February 23 , 1742-43 . It appears from some of Cave's letters to Dr. Birch , that Cave had better ...
... mentioned from hasty recollection ; for it is sufficiently evident , that his composition of them began November 19 , 1740 , and ended February 23 , 1742-43 . It appears from some of Cave's letters to Dr. Birch , that Cave had better ...
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... mentioned , to any one here that you shall appoint . I am , Sir , in " Your most obedient and most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " At Mr. Osborne's , bookseller , in Gray's Inn . " CHAPTER V. — 1744—1748 . Ir does not appear that ...
... mentioned , to any one here that you shall appoint . I am , Sir , in " Your most obedient and most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " At Mr. Osborne's , bookseller , in Gray's Inn . " CHAPTER V. — 1744—1748 . Ir does not appear that ...
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... mentioned , has very generally , I believe , been misunderstood : - " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring , And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'd a king . " " The lady mentioned in the first of these verses , was not the ...
... mentioned , has very generally , I believe , been misunderstood : - " Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring , And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'd a king . " " The lady mentioned in the first of these verses , was not the ...
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... mentioned in a manner that seems to indicate some connection between them , were Henry , and his sister Sally , Fielding , as she was then popularly called . Fielding had previously been a periodical essay- ist , and certainly was well ...
... mentioned in a manner that seems to indicate some connection between them , were Henry , and his sister Sally , Fielding , as she was then popularly called . Fielding had previously been a periodical essay- ist , and certainly was well ...
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