Johnsoniana: Robert Anderson. Life of Samuel JohnsonGarland Pub., 1974 |
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Page 189
... literature . The part which depends on the imagination is very well supplied . The province of criticism and literature , they are very desirous to assign to the commentator on Virgil . Two of the writers are my particular friends , and ...
... literature . The part which depends on the imagination is very well supplied . The province of criticism and literature , they are very desirous to assign to the commentator on Virgil . Two of the writers are my particular friends , and ...
Page 355
... literature . She lays her claim , for the first time , to the first fifty verses in " The Botanic Garden , " which , she professes , slie had writtten in compliment to Dr Darwin , many years before , and which he inserted in his poem ...
... literature . She lays her claim , for the first time , to the first fifty verses in " The Botanic Garden , " which , she professes , slie had writtten in compliment to Dr Darwin , many years before , and which he inserted in his poem ...
Page 443
... literature . His solicitude to discharge every duty , and every , obligation , was evinced by paying a guinea to Mr Faden , the geographer , near Charing Cross , which he had borrowed of his father about thirty years before ; and ...
... literature . His solicitude to discharge every duty , and every , obligation , was evinced by paying a guinea to Mr Faden , the geographer , near Charing Cross , which he had borrowed of his father about thirty years before ; and ...
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