The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 - Authors, English |
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... printed quarto volumes , with a fairly good index and a few notes . A portrait of Johnson , with a facsimile of his writing , is prefixed . Seventeen hundred copies were printed . It was pirated at Dublin in 1792 in 3 vols . 8vo . The ...
... printed quarto volumes , with a fairly good index and a few notes . A portrait of Johnson , with a facsimile of his writing , is prefixed . Seventeen hundred copies were printed . It was pirated at Dublin in 1792 in 3 vols . 8vo . The ...
Page 80
... printed off , but the design was dropt ; for it happened , oddly enough , that another person of the name of Samuel ... printed and manuscript . By S. Johnson . 1. The work will consist of two hundred sheets , and be two volumes in ...
... printed off , but the design was dropt ; for it happened , oddly enough , that another person of the name of Samuel ... printed and manuscript . By S. Johnson . 1. The work will consist of two hundred sheets , and be two volumes in ...
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... printed many of the plays , and have hitherto left very few passages unexplained ; where I am quite at a loss , I confess my ignorance , which is seldom done by commentators . " I have , likewise , inclosed twelve receipts ; not that I ...
... printed many of the plays , and have hitherto left very few passages unexplained ; where I am quite at a loss , I confess my ignorance , which is seldom done by commentators . " I have , likewise , inclosed twelve receipts ; not that I ...
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