The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Bickers and Son, 1874 - Authors, English |
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Page ix
... death . Neither of these were in such a shape as could have satisfied his natural critical taste , much new matter having reached him too late , which he was obliged to insert out of its proper place ; so there can be but little doubt ...
... death . Neither of these were in such a shape as could have satisfied his natural critical taste , much new matter having reached him too late , which he was obliged to insert out of its proper place ; so there can be but little doubt ...
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... death this edition became the standard one , and was regularly reprinted until the year 1831 , when it may be said to have been supplanted by Mr. Croker's important edition in five volumes , which under various forms has held its place ...
... death this edition became the standard one , and was regularly reprinted until the year 1831 , when it may be said to have been supplanted by Mr. Croker's important edition in five volumes , which under various forms has held its place ...
Page xii
... death ; " at p . 475 a very learned minister " is changed into " the very learned , " & c . At p . 90 a note of Warton's , seventeen lines long , on Z. Williams , is omitted ; Mr. Croker re - writes it , compressing it into three lines ...
... death ; " at p . 475 a very learned minister " is changed into " the very learned , " & c . At p . 90 a note of Warton's , seventeen lines long , on Z. Williams , is omitted ; Mr. Croker re - writes it , compressing it into three lines ...
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... death , of numberless obscure indi- viduals , or of writers quoted in the text , the contemporary accounts or illustrations of a transaction , which add little to the ver- sion in the text , with , above all , controversy , or ...
... death , of numberless obscure indi- viduals , or of writers quoted in the text , the contemporary accounts or illustrations of a transaction , which add little to the ver- sion in the text , with , above all , controversy , or ...
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... death of his wife . By October , he and Malone had gone seriously to work ; and in February of the next year the MS . was at last sent to the printer's , though [ ƒ ] admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would ...
... death of his wife . By October , he and Malone had gone seriously to work ; and in February of the next year the MS . was at last sent to the printer's , though [ ƒ ] admirable edition of Shakspeare , for which he generously would ...
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