The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Heritage Press, 1963 - Authors, English |
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... copy of the first edition , but whether she annotated it , and where the copy now is , are unknown . The Harvard copy has nearly 575 marginalia . In addi- tion to these , it contains about a thousand marks of one sort or another ...
... copy of the first edition , but whether she annotated it , and where the copy now is , are unknown . The Harvard copy has nearly 575 marginalia . In addi- tion to these , it contains about a thousand marks of one sort or another ...
Page 49
... copy of verses , which I have not been able to recover ; 2 but with what facility and elegance he 1 A prize of fifty pounds for the best poem ' on Life , Death , Judgement , Heaven , and Hell . ' See Gentleman's Magazine , vol iv . p ...
... copy of verses , which I have not been able to recover ; 2 but with what facility and elegance he 1 A prize of fifty pounds for the best poem ' on Life , Death , Judgement , Heaven , and Hell . ' See Gentleman's Magazine , vol iv . p ...
Page 177
... copy of it , which he had dictated to Mr. Baretti , with its title and corrections , in his own hand - writing . This he gave to Mr. Langton ; adding that if it were to come into print , he wished it to be from that copy . By Mr ...
... copy of it , which he had dictated to Mr. Baretti , with its title and corrections , in his own hand - writing . This he gave to Mr. Langton ; adding that if it were to come into print , he wished it to be from that copy . By Mr ...
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