Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. 26 27 was The Dissentions in Athens and Rome1 , published ( 1701 ) in his ... Boswell's Johnson , iii . 167. Richardson was fifty - two when he published Pamela , and Sterne forty - six when he ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. 26 27 was The Dissentions in Athens and Rome1 , published ( 1701 ) in his ... Boswell's Johnson , iii . 167. Richardson was fifty - two when he published Pamela , and Sterne forty - six when he ...
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... JOHNSON . Sir , his Conduct of the Allies is a performance of very little ability . 66 Surely , Sir , " said Dr ... Boswell's Johnson , ii . 65 . 7 Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty between Her Majesty and the States - General , & c ...
... JOHNSON . Sir , his Conduct of the Allies is a performance of very little ability . 66 Surely , Sir , " said Dr ... Boswell's Johnson , ii . 65 . 7 Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty between Her Majesty and the States - General , & c ...
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... Johnson defended him as the friend of his country . ' Boswell's Johnson , i . 311. Lucas prefixed to the first edition of the book ( 1758 ) an ' Advertisement ' be- ginning : -Thus the long - wished - for History , & c . , is at length ...
... Johnson defended him as the friend of his country . ' Boswell's Johnson , i . 311. Lucas prefixed to the first edition of the book ( 1758 ) an ' Advertisement ' be- ginning : -Thus the long - wished - for History , & c . , is at length ...
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... Johnson had left the country , and lived in lodgings not far from the deanery . On his publick days she regulated ... Boswell's Johnson , ii . 93 . By 1729 he seems to have opened his house only one day a week . In that year he wrote ...
... Johnson had left the country , and lived in lodgings not far from the deanery . On his publick days she regulated ... Boswell's Johnson , ii . 93 . By 1729 he seems to have opened his house only one day a week . In that year he wrote ...
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... Johnson by Dr. Ashe , Bishop of Clogher2 , as Dr. Madden3 told me , in the garden . The marriage made no change in ... Boswell's Johnson , i . 318. See also ib . ii . 321 ; John . Misc . ii . 211 , 267 ; • ante , ADDISON , 134 . 4 See ...
... Johnson by Dr. Ashe , Bishop of Clogher2 , as Dr. Madden3 told me , in the garden . The marriage made no change in ... Boswell's Johnson , i . 318. See also ib . ii . 321 ; John . Misc . ii . 211 , 267 ; • ante , ADDISON , 134 . 4 See ...
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