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... appeared from March 20 , 1750 , to March 14 , 1752 ) . They belong to a typical eighteenth - century literary genre - the periodical essay - today remembered chiefly for Addison and Steele and their Tatler and Spectator . Johnson's ...
... appeared from March 20 , 1750 , to March 14 , 1752 ) . They belong to a typical eighteenth - century literary genre - the periodical essay - today remembered chiefly for Addison and Steele and their Tatler and Spectator . Johnson's ...
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... appeared in this letter , was con- genial with that which Warburton himself amply possessed . There is a curious minute circumstance which struck me , in comparing the various editions of Johnson's Imita- tions of Juvenal . In the tenth ...
... appeared in this letter , was con- genial with that which Warburton himself amply possessed . There is a curious minute circumstance which struck me , in comparing the various editions of Johnson's Imita- tions of Juvenal . In the tenth ...
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... appeared to me that he estimated the compo- sitions of Richardson too highly , and that he had an unreasonable prejudice against Fielding . In comparing those two writers , he used this expression : ' that there was as great a ...
... appeared to me that he estimated the compo- sitions of Richardson too highly , and that he had an unreasonable prejudice against Fielding . In comparing those two writers , he used this expression : ' that there was as great a ...
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