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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... PUBLISHED . THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF - A - CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . WITH THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES . BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . -Quò fit ut OMNIS ...
... PUBLISHED . THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN IN GREAT BRITAIN , FOR NEAR HALF - A - CENTURY , DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED . WITH THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES . BY JAMES BOSWELL , ESQ . -Quò fit ut OMNIS ...
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... published in April , and by August , 1200 out of an edition of 1700 , had been sold . Nearly 4000 copies , Malone ... publish it himself.— Letters to Malone , ap . Croker . 2 " You cannot imagine what labour , what perplexity , what ...
... published in April , and by August , 1200 out of an edition of 1700 , had been sold . Nearly 4000 copies , Malone ... publish it himself.— Letters to Malone , ap . Croker . 2 " You cannot imagine what labour , what perplexity , what ...
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... published , In Two Volumes quarto , Price two guineas , in boards , Dedicated to Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS , and illustrated with the following plates : -Dr . JOHNSON , by HEATH , from the large picture painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1756 ...
... published , In Two Volumes quarto , Price two guineas , in boards , Dedicated to Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS , and illustrated with the following plates : -Dr . JOHNSON , by HEATH , from the large picture painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1756 ...
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... published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the Booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , " a man , whom , during my long intimacy with Dr. Johnson , I never saw in his company , I think but once , and I am ...
... published , the most voluminous of which is one compiled for the Booksellers of London , by Sir John Hawkins , Knight , " a man , whom , during my long intimacy with Dr. Johnson , I never saw in his company , I think but once , and I am ...
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... published at Oxford in 1731. In that miscellany Johnson's Translation of the Messiah appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poeticks , " Ex alieno ingenio Poeta , ex suo tantum versificator . " I am not ignorant that critical ...
... published at Oxford in 1731. In that miscellany Johnson's Translation of the Messiah appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poeticks , " Ex alieno ingenio Poeta , ex suo tantum versificator . " I am not ignorant that critical ...
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