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... JOHNSON was born at Lichfield in Staffordshire , September 7 , 1709 , O. S. His father , Michael Johnson , was a native of Cub- ley , a small village in Derbyshire , of obscure extraction , who settled in Lichfield as a book- seller ...
... JOHNSON was born at Lichfield in Staffordshire , September 7 , 1709 , O. S. His father , Michael Johnson , was a native of Cub- ley , a small village in Derbyshire , of obscure extraction , who settled in Lichfield as a book- seller ...
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... JOHNSON . The work was to be printed in thirty 8vo sheets , price 5s . The proposals notify that , Subscriptions are taken in by the editor , or N. Johnson , book- seller of Lichfield , " his brother , who had taken up his father's ...
... JOHNSON . The work was to be printed in thirty 8vo sheets , price 5s . The proposals notify that , Subscriptions are taken in by the editor , or N. Johnson , book- seller of Lichfield , " his brother , who had taken up his father's ...
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... Johnson's appearance is de- scribed as being very forbidding t . " He was then lean and lank ; so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to * She had a son and daughter ; the former a captain in the navy , from whom ...
... Johnson's appearance is de- scribed as being very forbidding t . " He was then lean and lank ; so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to * She had a son and daughter ; the former a captain in the navy , from whom ...
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... Johnson , and her person and manner , as described by Garrick * , were by no means pleasing to others . " She was very fat , with a bosom of more than ordinary protuberance . Her swelled cheeks were of a florid red , produced by thick ...
... Johnson , and her person and manner , as described by Garrick * , were by no means pleasing to others . " She was very fat , with a bosom of more than ordinary protuberance . Her swelled cheeks were of a florid red , produced by thick ...
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... Johnson , set out this morning for London together . Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week , and Mr Johnson , to try his fate with a tra- gedy , and to see to get himself employed in some translation , either from the Latin ...
... Johnson , set out this morning for London together . Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week , and Mr Johnson , to try his fate with a tra- gedy , and to see to get himself employed in some translation , either from the Latin ...
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