The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 3Talboys and Wheeler, 1826 |
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... Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels P , a Scotchman , one of his amanuenses . " The " This In the Monthly Review for May , 1792 , there is such a correction of the above passage , as I should think myself very culpable not to ...
... Cibber , was entirely compiled by Mr. Shiels P , a Scotchman , one of his amanuenses . " The " This In the Monthly Review for May , 1792 , there is such a correction of the above passage , as I should think myself very culpable not to ...
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... Cibber at all ; and in the second place , that it was the work of old Cibber . " Mr. Murphy said , that " The Memoirs of Gray's Life set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did ; for you there saw a man constantly at ...
... Cibber at all ; and in the second place , that it was the work of old Cibber . " Mr. Murphy said , that " The Memoirs of Gray's Life set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did ; for you there saw a man constantly at ...
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... Cibber's Lives of the Poets " , was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud a large portion of him , and then asked , ' Is not this fine ? ' Shiels having expressed the highest admiration , Well , sir , ' said I ...
... Cibber's Lives of the Poets " , was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud a large portion of him , and then asked , ' Is not this fine ? ' Shiels having expressed the highest admiration , Well , sir , ' said I ...
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... Cibber could tell no more but That he remembered him a decent old man , arbiter of critical disputes at Will's . ' You are to consider , that Cibber was then at a great distance from Dryden , had perhaps one leg only in the room , and ...
... Cibber could tell no more but That he remembered him a decent old man , arbiter of critical disputes at Will's . ' You are to consider , that Cibber was then at a great distance from Dryden , had perhaps one leg only in the room , and ...
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... Cibber , but , as you told me , really written by a Mr. Shiels ; that written by Dr. Murdoch ; one prefixed to an edition of the Seasons published at Edinburgh , which is compounded of both , with the addition of an anecdote of Quin's ...
... Cibber , but , as you told me , really written by a Mr. Shiels ; that written by Dr. Murdoch ; one prefixed to an edition of the Seasons published at Edinburgh , which is compounded of both , with the addition of an anecdote of Quin's ...
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