The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. M. Dent, 1925 |
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... wrote a copy of verses , which I have not been able to recover ; but with what facility and elegance he could warble the amorous lay , will appear from the following lines which he wrote for his friend Mr. Edmund Hector . VERSES to a ...
... wrote a copy of verses , which I have not been able to recover ; but with what facility and elegance he could warble the amorous lay , will appear from the following lines which he wrote for his friend Mr. Edmund Hector . VERSES to a ...
Page 299
... wrote a review of Grainger's " Sugar Cane , a Poem , " in the London Chronicle . He told me , that Dr. Percy wrote the greatest part of this review ; but , I imagine , he did not recollect it distinctly , for it appears to be mostly ...
... wrote a review of Grainger's " Sugar Cane , a Poem , " in the London Chronicle . He told me , that Dr. Percy wrote the greatest part of this review ; but , I imagine , he did not recollect it distinctly , for it appears to be mostly ...
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... wrote him a letter of expostula- tion , which I have not been able to find ; but the substance of it is ascertained by a letter to Johnson in answer to it , which Mr. Hervey printed . The occasion of this correspondence between Dr ...
... wrote him a letter of expostula- tion , which I have not been able to find ; but the substance of it is ascertained by a letter to Johnson in answer to it , which Mr. Hervey printed . The occasion of this correspondence between Dr ...
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