The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... VOLUME THE FOURTH . DOMIMINA NVS TIO ILLV MEA BIBLIOTHÈQUE S. J. Les Fontai C 60 - CH OXFORD , PUBLISHED BY TALBOYS AND WHEELER ; AND WILLIAM PICKERING , LONDON . MDCCC XXVI . PREFATORY NOTICE . No memoirs were ever perhaps more ...
... VOLUME THE FOURTH . DOMIMINA NVS TIO ILLV MEA BIBLIOTHÈQUE S. J. Les Fontai C 60 - CH OXFORD , PUBLISHED BY TALBOYS AND WHEELER ; AND WILLIAM PICKERING , LONDON . MDCCC XXVI . PREFATORY NOTICE . No memoirs were ever perhaps more ...
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... volume of the Gentleman's Magazine , part 2 , page 54 , in an article entitled the Calamities of Authors , there occurs the following anecdote on the above negociation . " In the case of the Lives of the Poets , which drew forth the ...
... volume of the Gentleman's Magazine , part 2 , page 54 , in an article entitled the Calamities of Authors , there occurs the following anecdote on the above negociation . " In the case of the Lives of the Poets , which drew forth the ...
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... volume , where the same remark is made , and Johnson is there speaking of prose . In his life of Dryden , his observations on the opera of King Arthur furnish a striking instance of the truth of this re- mark . - MAlone . * The original ...
... volume , where the same remark is made , and Johnson is there speaking of prose . In his life of Dryden , his observations on the opera of King Arthur furnish a striking instance of the truth of this re- mark . - MAlone . * The original ...
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... volume , page 479 , of the Curiosities of Literature , Mr. D'Israeli says , " I shall preserve a literary curiosity , which is perhaps the only one of its kind . It is an original memorandum of Dr. Johnson's of hints for the life of ...
... volume , page 479 , of the Curiosities of Literature , Mr. D'Israeli says , " I shall preserve a literary curiosity , which is perhaps the only one of its kind . It is an original memorandum of Dr. Johnson's of hints for the life of ...
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... volume . lines in Italics , " remarks D'Israeli , " Johnson had scratched with red ink , pro- bably after having made use of them . " Nothing occasional . No haste . Practised only one form of verse . POPE . No rivals . No compulsion ...
... volume . lines in Italics , " remarks D'Israeli , " Johnson had scratched with red ink , pro- bably after having made use of them . " Nothing occasional . No haste . Practised only one form of verse . POPE . No rivals . No compulsion ...
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