The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 8Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
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... Observations upon , and various Readings in , the Life of Cowley . - Waller . Dryden . Pope . Broome . - Blackmore . Philips . Milton . Parnell . ― - Akenside . Lord Lyttelton . - - Addison . - Congreve . - Tickell . -Young . - Swift ...
... Observations upon , and various Readings in , the Life of Cowley . - Waller . Dryden . Pope . Broome . - Blackmore . Philips . Milton . Parnell . ― - Akenside . Lord Lyttelton . - - Addison . - Congreve . - Tickell . -Young . - Swift ...
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... Observation upon , and various Readings in , the Life of Cowley Waller . Milton.- Dryden.— Pope . Broome - Addison . Parnell . - Blackmore . -- Philips . · Congreve . — Tickell.— Akenside.— Lord Lyttleton Young . Swift . - IN 1781 ...
... Observation upon , and various Readings in , the Life of Cowley Waller . Milton.- Dryden.— Pope . Broome - Addison . Parnell . - Blackmore . -- Philips . · Congreve . — Tickell.— Akenside.— Lord Lyttleton Young . Swift . - IN 1781 ...
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... observed to me , " Sir , I always said the bookseller were a generous set of men . Nor , in the present instance , hav I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me oo little , but that I have written too much . " The ...
... observed to me , " Sir , I always said the bookseller were a generous set of men . Nor , in the present instance , hav I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me oo little , but that I have written too much . " The ...
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... observe the fair hand ( 2 ) of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . ( 1 ) See several more in " The Gentleman's Magazine , 1785. The editor of that miscellany , in which Johnson wrote for several years , seems justly ...
... observe the fair hand ( 2 ) of Mrs. Thrale as one of his copyists of select passages . ( 1 ) See several more in " The Gentleman's Magazine , 1785. The editor of that miscellany , in which Johnson wrote for several years , seems justly ...
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... observations upon some of them , and insert a few various readings . The Life of COWLEY he himself considered as the best of the whole , on account of the dissertation which it contains on the Metaphysical Poets . ( 1 ) Dryden , whose ...
... observations upon some of them , and insert a few various readings . The Life of COWLEY he himself considered as the best of the whole , on account of the dissertation which it contains on the Metaphysical Poets . ( 1 ) Dryden , whose ...
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