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A Selection Samuel Johnson John Wain. of Johnson's attitude to the seventeenth century , and in particular to its great central event , the Civil War . As a royalist , Johnson naturally regretted that Englishmen had found it necessary to ...
A Selection Samuel Johnson John Wain. of Johnson's attitude to the seventeenth century , and in particular to its great central event , the Civil War . As a royalist , Johnson naturally regretted that Englishmen had found it necessary to ...
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... Johnson traced the gradual ripening and prevailing of the Augustan literary culture . The Lives of Dryden and Pope celebrate that culture at its resplendent noon . In all English criticism there is no more brilliant passage than the ...
... Johnson traced the gradual ripening and prevailing of the Augustan literary culture . The Lives of Dryden and Pope celebrate that culture at its resplendent noon . In all English criticism there is no more brilliant passage than the ...
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... Johnson ( 1785 ) ; James Boswell , Life of Samuel Johnson ( 1791 ) ; Hester Lynch Piozzi , Anecdotes of the late Dr Johnson ( 1786 ) ; G. B. Hill , Dr Johnson , his Friends and his Critics ( 1878 ) ; Walter Raleigh , Six Essays on Johnson ...
... Johnson ( 1785 ) ; James Boswell , Life of Samuel Johnson ( 1791 ) ; Hester Lynch Piozzi , Anecdotes of the late Dr Johnson ( 1786 ) ; G. B. Hill , Dr Johnson , his Friends and his Critics ( 1878 ) ; Walter Raleigh , Six Essays on Johnson ...
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