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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... to embrace these various JOHNSONIANA ; and with Vol . X. , to be published on the 1st of December , there will accordingly be given a fresh set of titlepages for the whole of this collection . CONTENTS . CHAPTER 1 . 1781 . - The "
... to embrace these various JOHNSONIANA ; and with Vol . X. , to be published on the 1st of December , there will accordingly be given a fresh set of titlepages for the whole of this collection . CONTENTS . CHAPTER 1 . 1781 . - The "
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... published in 1779. This edition of the Poets was in sixty .C . volumes , small octavo .-- " The ( 1 ) His design is thus announced in his advertisement : booksellers having determined to publish a body of English poetry , I was ...
... published in 1779. This edition of the Poets was in sixty .C . volumes , small octavo .-- " The ( 1 ) His design is thus announced in his advertisement : booksellers having determined to publish a body of English poetry , I was ...
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... published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with another hundred guineas . NICHOLS . assimilated to the lady in Waller , who could impress B 2 ETAT . 72 . 3 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... published in a separate edition ; when , for a very few corrections , the doctor was presented with another hundred guineas . NICHOLS . assimilated to the lady in Waller , who could impress B 2 ETAT . 72 . 3 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... published or issued would have been more readily understood ; and a third , when he calls Orrery and Dr. Delaney writers both undoubtedly veracious ; when true , honest , or faithful , might have been used . Yet , it must be owned ...
... published or issued would have been more readily understood ; and a third , when he calls Orrery and Dr. Delaney writers both undoubtedly veracious ; when true , honest , or faithful , might have been used . Yet , it must be owned ...
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... published a great many years ago , and have since , it is said , been silently given up by their author . But when it is considered that these writings were not sins of youth , but deliberate works of one well advanced in life ...
... published a great many years ago , and have since , it is said , been silently given up by their author . But when it is considered that these writings were not sins of youth , but deliberate works of one well advanced in life ...
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