Johnsoniana: Robert Anderson. Life of Samuel JohnsonGarland Pub., 1974 |
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... original composition ; by which English literature has been more bene- fited than it could have been by the highest improvement he could bestow on the obsolete translation of the history of that memorable council . But in relinquishing ...
... original composition ; by which English literature has been more bene- fited than it could have been by the highest improvement he could bestow on the obsolete translation of the history of that memorable council . But in relinquishing ...
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... original Dedication , and substituted an elegant and The following paragraph of a letter from Bishop Percy , to the present writer , dated , London , June 18 , 1800 , is transcribed here , as it allows him to say , that although the ...
... original Dedication , and substituted an elegant and The following paragraph of a letter from Bishop Percy , to the present writer , dated , London , June 18 , 1800 , is transcribed here , as it allows him to say , that although the ...
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... Original Letters to Dr Samuel Johnson by Miss Hill Boothby , from the Mss . preserved by the Doctor , and now in possession of Richard Wright , surgeon , pro- prietor of the Museum of Antiquities at Lich- field . * * This fragment of ...
... Original Letters to Dr Samuel Johnson by Miss Hill Boothby , from the Mss . preserved by the Doctor , and now in possession of Richard Wright , surgeon , pro- prietor of the Museum of Antiquities at Lich- field . * * This fragment of ...
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