The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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Page 71
... poets . Though no comets or prodigies foretold the ruin of Greece , signs which heaven must by another miracle enable us to understand , yet might it be foreshown by tokens no less certain , by the vices which always bring it on . This ...
... poets . Though no comets or prodigies foretold the ruin of Greece , signs which heaven must by another miracle enable us to understand , yet might it be foreshown by tokens no less certain , by the vices which always bring it on . This ...
Page 77
... , in the collection of poems entitled , The Union , though it is there said to be written by Archibald Scott , before the year 1600. - BoswELL . of information , the parliamentary journals ; and such was ÆTAT . 29. ] by my DR . JOHNSON .
... , in the collection of poems entitled , The Union , though it is there said to be written by Archibald Scott , before the year 1600. - BoswELL . of information , the parliamentary journals ; and such was ÆTAT . 29. ] by my DR . JOHNSON .
Page 78
... Poem , in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal ; which came out in May this year , and burst forth with a splen- dour , the rays of which will for ever encircle his name . Boileau had imitated the same satire with great success ...
... Poem , in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal ; which came out in May this year , and burst forth with a splen- dour , the rays of which will for ever encircle his name . Boileau had imitated the same satire with great success ...
Page 79
... poem sets out with a strange inadvertent blunder : Though much concern'd to leave my dear old friend , I must , however , his design commend Of fixing in the country . It is plain he was not going to leave his friend ; his friend b I ...
... poem sets out with a strange inadvertent blunder : Though much concern'd to leave my dear old friend , I must , however , his design commend Of fixing in the country . It is plain he was not going to leave his friend ; his friend b I ...
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... poem was composed , I am sorry that I neglected to ascertain with precision , from Johnson's own authority . He has marked upon his cor- rected copy of the first edition of it , " Written in 1738 ; " and as it was published in the month ...
... poem was composed , I am sorry that I neglected to ascertain with precision , from Johnson's own authority . He has marked upon his cor- rected copy of the first edition of it , " Written in 1738 ; " and as it was published in the month ...
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