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Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. TS NES THE GIFT OF Mrs. William Dinsmore Briggs TO THE English. Front Cover.
Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. TS NES THE GIFT OF Mrs. William Dinsmore Briggs TO THE English. Front Cover.
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Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. THE GIFT OF Mrs. William Dinsmore Briggs TO THE English Department of STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD LIBRARIES book be removed from this room . BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY . JOHNSON'S LIVES OF THE POETS .
Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. THE GIFT OF Mrs. William Dinsmore Briggs TO THE English Department of STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD LIBRARIES book be removed from this room . BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY . JOHNSON'S LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... ENGLISH LITERATURE IN KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON , AND CLARK LECTURER AT TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE . VOL . III . LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . Ber J69 Ln V.3 C.2 797676 CHISWICK PRESS : -C . 1890 .
... ENGLISH LITERATURE IN KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON , AND CLARK LECTURER AT TRINITY COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE . VOL . III . LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONS , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . Ber J69 Ln V.3 C.2 797676 CHISWICK PRESS : -C . 1890 .
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... English preferment , in exchange for the prebend which he desired him to resign . With this re- quest Swift complied , having perhaps equally repented their separation , and they lived on together with mutual satisfaction ; and , in the ...
... English preferment , in exchange for the prebend which he desired him to resign . With this re- quest Swift complied , having perhaps equally repented their separation , and they lived on together with mutual satisfaction ; and , in the ...
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... English scholars as it had been to those of France , and Sir William Temple published in answer , his Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning . Wotton and Bentley replying , Swift's powers of satire were naturally exerted in behalf of ...
... English scholars as it had been to those of France , and Sir William Temple published in answer , his Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning . Wotton and Bentley replying , Swift's powers of satire were naturally exerted in behalf of ...
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