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Samuel Johnson. VI A. PHILIPS WEST . CONTENTS OF VOLUME II . PAGE 323 330 333 837 840 346 386 391 · 397 408 COLLINS DYER SHENSTONE YOUNG MALLET AKENSIDE GRAY . LYTTELTON JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . II . EO BARGE !
Samuel Johnson. VI A. PHILIPS WEST . CONTENTS OF VOLUME II . PAGE 323 330 333 837 840 346 386 391 · 397 408 COLLINS DYER SHENSTONE YOUNG MALLET AKENSIDE GRAY . LYTTELTON JOHNSON'S LIVES . VOL . II . EO BARGE !
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... man on whom they were bestowed ; for he was the companion of Cobham , Lyttelton , and Chesterfield . He is said to have divided his life between pleasure and books ; in his retirement forgetting the town 76 HAMMOND . HAMMOND.
... man on whom they were bestowed ; for he was the companion of Cobham , Lyttelton , and Chesterfield . He is said to have divided his life between pleasure and books ; in his retirement forgetting the town 76 HAMMOND . HAMMOND.
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... Lyttelton , with a liberty which , as it has a manifest tendency to lessen the confidence of society , and to confound the characters of authors , by making one man write by the judgment of another , cannot be justified by any supposed ...
... Lyttelton , with a liberty which , as it has a manifest tendency to lessen the confidence of society , and to confound the characters of authors , by making one man write by the judgment of another , cannot be justified by any supposed ...
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Samuel Johnson. the influence of Mr. Lyttelton professed himself the patron of wit : to him Thomson was introduced , and being gaily interrogated about the state of his affairs , said , " that they were in a more poetical posture than ...
Samuel Johnson. the influence of Mr. Lyttelton professed himself the patron of wit : to him Thomson was introduced , and being gaily interrogated about the state of his affairs , said , " that they were in a more poetical posture than ...
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... Lyttelton was now in power , and conferred upon him the office of surveyor - general of the Leeward Islands ; from which , when his deputy was paid , he received about three hundred pounds a year . The last picce that he lived to ...
... Lyttelton was now in power , and conferred upon him the office of surveyor - general of the Leeward Islands ; from which , when his deputy was paid , he received about three hundred pounds a year . The last picce that he lived to ...
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