The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Dent, 1949 - Authors, English |
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... remarkable , that it came out on the same morning with Pope's satire , entitled " 1738 ; 1738 ; " so that England had at once its Juvenal and Horace as poetical monitors . The Reverend Dr. Douglas , now Bishop of Salisbury , to whom I ...
... remarkable , that it came out on the same morning with Pope's satire , entitled " 1738 ; 1738 ; " so that England had at once its Juvenal and Horace as poetical monitors . The Reverend Dr. Douglas , now Bishop of Salisbury , to whom I ...
Page 105
... remarkable , that in this first edition of " The Winter's Walk , " the concluding line is much more Johnsonian than it was afterwards printed ; for in subsequent editions , after praying Stella to snatch him to her arms , " he says , 66 ...
... remarkable , that in this first edition of " The Winter's Walk , " the concluding line is much more Johnsonian than it was afterwards printed ; for in subsequent editions , after praying Stella to snatch him to her arms , " he says , 66 ...
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... remarkable say ings , and was one of the best of the many imitators of his voice and manner , while relating them . He increased my impatience more and more to see the extraordinary man whose works I highly valued , and whose ...
... remarkable say ings , and was one of the best of the many imitators of his voice and manner , while relating them . He increased my impatience more and more to see the extraordinary man whose works I highly valued , and whose ...
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