The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... Thomas Warton made this remark to me ; and , in support of it , quoted from the poem entitled " The Bastard , " a line in which the fancied superiority of one " stamped in Nature's mint with ecstasy " is contrasted with a regular lawful ...
... Thomas Warton made this remark to me ; and , in support of it , quoted from the poem entitled " The Bastard , " a line in which the fancied superiority of one " stamped in Nature's mint with ecstasy " is contrasted with a regular lawful ...
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... Thomas Warton , who obligingly furnished me with several of our common friend's letters , which he illustrated with notes . These I shall insert in their proper places . " DR . JOHNSON TO MR . WARTON . " ( London ) , 16 July , 1754 ...
... Thomas Warton , who obligingly furnished me with several of our common friend's letters , which he illustrated with notes . These I shall insert in their proper places . " DR . JOHNSON TO MR . WARTON . " ( London ) , 16 July , 1754 ...
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... THOMAS WARTON . " 31st May , 1769 . " DEAR SIR , - Many years ago , when I used to read in the library of your college , I promised to recompense the college for that permission , by adding to their books a Baskerville's Virgil . I have ...
... THOMAS WARTON . " 31st May , 1769 . " DEAR SIR , - Many years ago , when I used to read in the library of your college , I promised to recompense the college for that permission , by adding to their books a Baskerville's Virgil . I have ...
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