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Page v
... appeared before Boswell have recently been collected for the first time ; and even some of the nineteenth - century annotations to Boswell are preserved in the Hill - Powell edition of the Life.1 Scholarly attention to the growth of ...
... appeared before Boswell have recently been collected for the first time ; and even some of the nineteenth - century annotations to Boswell are preserved in the Hill - Powell edition of the Life.1 Scholarly attention to the growth of ...
Page vi
... appeared , is in its final expanded form both an important source of biographical material and the first full - length critical study of Johnson . Anderson's Works of the British Poets was pub- lished in thirteen volumes over a period ...
... appeared , is in its final expanded form both an important source of biographical material and the first full - length critical study of Johnson . Anderson's Works of the British Poets was pub- lished in thirteen volumes over a period ...
Page vii
... appeared the same year . With this spun - off reprinting of the original we might logically expect the biblio- graphical history of Anderson's Life to cease . Excluding Mrs. Thrale's Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson and Murphy's ...
... appeared the same year . With this spun - off reprinting of the original we might logically expect the biblio- graphical history of Anderson's Life to cease . Excluding Mrs. Thrale's Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson and Murphy's ...
Page ix
... appearance of Boswell's Life in 1791 , Percy made some notes , referring to the pagination of the first edition , in which he makes a number of criticisms of Boswell . It is uncertain whether Anderson ever saw these early notes , which ...
... appearance of Boswell's Life in 1791 , Percy made some notes , referring to the pagination of the first edition , in which he makes a number of criticisms of Boswell . It is uncertain whether Anderson ever saw these early notes , which ...
Page xxvi
... appeared in his Life nine years later . The other attribution for which Anderson pre- sented new evidence is the dedication to Percy's Reli- ques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ) . Boswell had assigned this piece to Johnson in his ...
... appeared in his Life nine years later . The other attribution for which Anderson pre- sented new evidence is the dedication to Percy's Reli- ques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ) . Boswell had assigned this piece to Johnson in his ...
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