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" For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his hands, while he considered and reconsidered them. The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard to the times as might hasten their publication were the two satires of Thirty-eight;... "
Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton - Page 221
by Samuel Johnson - 1905
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

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...the times as might haften their publication, were the two fatires of Thirty-eight ; of which Dodfley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. " Every line," faid he, " was then written twice over; I t{ gave him a clean tranfcript, which he fent...
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...the times as might haften their publication, were tjie two fatires of Thirty eigbt\ t of which DodQey told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. " F.very line,'1 faid be, '* was then written twice over; I gave him a clean tranfcrip:, which he fent...
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

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...the times as might haften their publication, were the two futires of ffiirty-etgbl ; of which Dodfley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. " Every " line," faid he, " was then written " twice over ; I gave him a clean tran" fcript, which...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 4

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...as might haften their publication, were the two fatires of Thirty-eight ; of which Dodfley told mej that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. " Every line," faid he, " was then written twice over; I " gave him a clean tranfcript, which he fent...
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prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets

samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...the times as might haften their publication, were the two fatires of Thirty-eight ; of which Dodfley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that .jtliey might be fairlj copied. " Every ..-.'.-;, "line," •" line," faid he, " was then written "...
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...the times as might haften their publication, were the two fatires of Thirty-eight ; of which Dodfley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. " Almoft every line," he faid, " was then " written twice over ; I gave him a clean tranfcnpt, " which...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...the times as might haflen their publication, were the two fatires of Thirty-eight; of which Dodfley told me, that they were brought . to him by the author, that they might be fairly co. ^ .pied. " Almoft every line," he faid, " was then ; '* written twice over ; I gave him a clean...
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The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ...

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...the times as might haften their publication, were the two fatires ot Thirty-eight ; of which Dodfley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. " Every line," faid he, " was then written twice over; I gave him a clean tranfcript, which he fent...
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Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations

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...times as might haften their publication, were the two fatires of " Thirty-eight;" of which Dodfley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. • Every line, laid he, was then. written twice over ' I gavt him a clean tranjcript, ivfiick fie...
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...such regard to the times as might hasten their publication, were the two satires of " Thirty-eight ;" of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to...sent some time afterwards to me for the " press, with almoft every line written twice over a second time." His declaration, that his care for his works ceased...
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