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... Poetry I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an. X. In the first edition ( PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL TO THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . Io vols ...
... Poetry I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an. X. In the first edition ( PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL TO THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . Io vols ...
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... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. ' Underneath , in Johnson's autograph , are these words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither ...
... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. ' Underneath , in Johnson's autograph , are these words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither ...
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... Poets , which hundred ; on this occasion Dr. John- however is not easy , because they son observed to me- " Sir , I have are not to be bought unless you buy always said the booksellers were a also a perfect litter of poets in ...
... Poets , which hundred ; on this occasion Dr. John- however is not easy , because they son observed to me- " Sir , I have are not to be bought unless you buy always said the booksellers were a also a perfect litter of poets in ...
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... poem , ab- surdly praises Sprat . Addressing Cowley he says : - ' Blest man ! who now shalt be for ever known In Sprat's successful labours and thy own . ' Addison's Works , i . 24 . LIVES OF POETS . I B ' What literary man has not re ...
... poem , ab- surdly praises Sprat . Addressing Cowley he says : - ' Blest man ! who now shalt be for ever known In Sprat's successful labours and thy own . ' Addison's Works , i . 24 . LIVES OF POETS . I B ' What literary man has not re ...
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... Poets , vii . 137 ] , ubi plus centum amicas enumerat ; qui revera , quum unicam tantum haberet , prae nimia tamen verecundia , nunquam illam , licet in iisdem aedi- bus manentem , de amore compellare ausus est ; quod ex certa relatione ...
... Poets , vii . 137 ] , ubi plus centum amicas enumerat ; qui revera , quum unicam tantum haberet , prae nimia tamen verecundia , nunquam illam , licet in iisdem aedi- bus manentem , de amore compellare ausus est ; quod ex certa relatione ...
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