The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.W. P. Ninno, Hay & Mitchell, 1890 - 562 pages |
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... JOSEPH WARTON . ' March 8 , 1753 . ' DEAR SIR , -I ought to have written to you. before. now. ,. but. I. ought. to. do. many. things. which. I do not ; nor can I , indeed , claim any merit from this letter ; for , being desired by the ...
... JOSEPH WARTON . ' March 8 , 1753 . ' DEAR SIR , -I ought to have written to you. before. now. ,. but. I. ought. to. do. many. things. which. I do not ; nor can I , indeed , claim any merit from this letter ; for , being desired by the ...
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... Warton be not in Oxford , you may try if you can get it done by anybody else ; or stay till he comes , according to ... Joseph Warton , written some months before ( March 8 , 1754 ) , Dr. Johnson thus speaks of Collins : - ' But ...
... Warton be not in Oxford , you may try if you can get it done by anybody else ; or stay till he comes , according to ... Joseph Warton , written some months before ( March 8 , 1754 ) , Dr. Johnson thus speaks of Collins : - ' But ...
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... Joseph Warton , in consequence of having read a few pages of that gentleman's newly published Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope . The only paragraph in it that respects Johnson's personal history is this : ' For my part , I have ...
... Joseph Warton , in consequence of having read a few pages of that gentleman's newly published Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope . The only paragraph in it that respects Johnson's personal history is this : ' For my part , I have ...
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... Joseph Warton told me that Johnson said of him , ' He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature .'- BOSWELL 1 In 1769 , I set for Smart and Newbery , Thornton's I mentioned the periodical paper called the ...
... Joseph Warton told me that Johnson said of him , ' He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature .'- BOSWELL 1 In 1769 , I set for Smart and Newbery , Thornton's I mentioned the periodical paper called the ...
Page 128
... Joseph Warton was a very agree- able man , and his Essay on the Genius and Writ- ings of Pope a very pleasing book . I wondered that he delayed so long to give us the continua- tion of it . - JOHNSON : ' Why , sir , I suppose he finds ...
... Joseph Warton was a very agree- able man , and his Essay on the Genius and Writ- ings of Pope a very pleasing book . I wondered that he delayed so long to give us the continua- tion of it . - JOHNSON : ' Why , sir , I suppose he finds ...
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