The Life of Samuel JohnsonGeorg Olms Verlag - 639 pages |
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... John- sonian biography has focused principally on the three major lives or memoirs by his contemporaries ( Mrs. Thrale , Hawkins , and Boswell ) and to a lesser degree on a few of the more available minor biographies , like that of ...
... John- sonian biography has focused principally on the three major lives or memoirs by his contemporaries ( Mrs. Thrale , Hawkins , and Boswell ) and to a lesser degree on a few of the more available minor biographies , like that of ...
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... John- son is included with his poetical works in Volume XI , dated 1794 but published in 1795.4 A few of the lives 3 DNB , I , 331 ( by Francis Espinasse ) . 4 See " The Life of Johnson , " in The Works of the British Poets , 14 vols ...
... John- son is included with his poetical works in Volume XI , dated 1794 but published in 1795.4 A few of the lives 3 DNB , I , 331 ( by Francis Espinasse ) . 4 See " The Life of Johnson , " in The Works of the British Poets , 14 vols ...
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... John Nichols , Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century , 8 vols . ( London , 1817-58 ) , VII , 136. Nichols prints a large selection from the Anderson- Percy correspondence , so far the only accumulation of ...
... John Nichols , Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century , 8 vols . ( London , 1817-58 ) , VII , 136. Nichols prints a large selection from the Anderson- Percy correspondence , so far the only accumulation of ...
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... John- son , and submitted such corrections , additions , and notes , as occurred to me , of which you may make what use you please ; but I could wish not to have my name unnecessarily obtruded on the reader and therefore beg you will ...
... John- son , and submitted such corrections , additions , and notes , as occurred to me , of which you may make what use you please ; but I could wish not to have my name unnecessarily obtruded on the reader and therefore beg you will ...
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Robert Anderson. to his vocation . We now know that members of John- son's circle , like Percy , were eager to exonerate him from such charges , however true . His objection sug- gests another , more salient point : Anderson is not a ...
Robert Anderson. to his vocation . We now know that members of John- son's circle , like Percy , were eager to exonerate him from such charges , however true . His objection sug- gests another , more salient point : Anderson is not a ...
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