The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1Heritage Press, 1963 - Authors, English |
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... Authour too late to be arranged in that chrono- logical order which he had endeavoured uniformly to observe in his work , he was obliged to introduce them in his Second Edition , by way of ADDENDA , as commodiously as he could . In the ...
... Authour too late to be arranged in that chrono- logical order which he had endeavoured uniformly to observe in his work , he was obliged to introduce them in his Second Edition , by way of ADDENDA , as commodiously as he could . In the ...
Page 308
... authour . JOHNSON . ' Pretty well , Sir , for one man . As to his being an authour , I have not looked at his poetry ; but his prose is poor stuff . He writes just as you may suppose Voltaire's footboy to do , who has been his ...
... authour . JOHNSON . ' Pretty well , Sir , for one man . As to his being an authour , I have not looked at his poetry ; but his prose is poor stuff . He writes just as you may suppose Voltaire's footboy to do , who has been his ...
Page 454
... authour : but that gentleman could furnish no aid on this occasion . At length the lines have been discovered by the authour's second son , Mr. James Boswell , in the London Magazine for July , 1732 , where they form part of a poem on ...
... authour : but that gentleman could furnish no aid on this occasion . At length the lines have been discovered by the authour's second son , Mr. James Boswell , in the London Magazine for July , 1732 , where they form part of a poem on ...
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