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... write . In that year he became a contributor to the Saturday Review , then under the editorship of his friend Philip ... writer who was master of it . For many years he was a regular contributor , his last review , I believe ...
... write . In that year he became a contributor to the Saturday Review , then under the editorship of his friend Philip ... writer who was master of it . For many years he was a regular contributor , his last review , I believe ...
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... write his Life . In 1880 also , General Gordon's brother , Sir Henry Gordon , entrusted him with the duty of editing the letters which General Gordon had written to his sister during the six years of his government of the Soudan . For ...
... write his Life . In 1880 also , General Gordon's brother , Sir Henry Gordon , entrusted him with the duty of editing the letters which General Gordon had written to his sister during the six years of his government of the Soudan . For ...
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... write little Lives , and little Prefaces to a little edition of The English Poets . Boswell's Johnson , iii . 109. ] 3 Johnson does not always give Dryden's plays in their chronological order . See post , DRYDEN , 64 n . 4 . In the ...
... write little Lives , and little Prefaces to a little edition of The English Poets . Boswell's Johnson , iii . 109. ] 3 Johnson does not always give Dryden's plays in their chronological order . See post , DRYDEN , 64 n . 4 . In the ...
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... write little Lives , and little that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , Prefaces to a little edition of The 1783. Underneath , in Johnson's English Poets . ' Boswell's Johnson , , autograph , are these words : “ It is jii . 109. ) great ...
... write little Lives , and little that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , Prefaces to a little edition of The 1783. Underneath , in Johnson's English Poets . ' Boswell's Johnson , , autograph , are these words : “ It is jii . 109. ) great ...
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... write his Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labour . Nature gave them a bias to their respective pursuits , and that strong propensity , I suppose , is what we mean by Genius . The rest ...
... write his Paradise Lost , nor Homer his Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labour . Nature gave them a bias to their respective pursuits , and that strong propensity , I suppose , is what we mean by Genius . The rest ...
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