The Life of Samuel JohnsonGeorg Olms Verlag - 639 pages |
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Page v
... 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 John- sonian biography has focused principally ...
... 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 John- sonian biography has focused principally ...
Page vi
... collection of The Works of the British Poets . With Prefaces , Biographical and Critical is one of the three major ... collections where it originally appeared , is in its final expanded form both an important source of biographical ...
... collection of The Works of the British Poets . With Prefaces , Biographical and Critical is one of the three major ... collections where it originally appeared , is in its final expanded form both an important source of biographical ...
Page vii
... collection ( e . g . , Blair , Grainger , Moore , Smart ) . But only one , the bio- graphy of Johnson , was sufficiently long and important to be published as a separate volume without the poems . The second edition , completely reset ...
... collection ( e . g . , Blair , Grainger , Moore , Smart ) . But only one , the bio- graphy of Johnson , was sufficiently long and important to be published as a separate volume without the poems . The second edition , completely reset ...
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... collections of his books , at the University of Belfast and the Bodleian Library . To the best of my 9 See the sale catalogue ... collection was purchased en bloc for Belfast for £ 90,000 , the largest price ever paid for a single lot at ...
... collections of his books , at the University of Belfast and the Bodleian Library . To the best of my 9 See the sale catalogue ... collection was purchased en bloc for Belfast for £ 90,000 , the largest price ever paid for a single lot at ...
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... the Bodleian in 1932. See D. Nichol Smith , " The Constance Meade Collection and the University Press Museum , " Bodleian Library Record , 6 ( 1957-61 ) , 427-33 . 3 Anderson's intentions in undertaking a life of John- son XIII *
... the Bodleian in 1932. See D. Nichol Smith , " The Constance Meade Collection and the University Press Museum , " Bodleian Library Record , 6 ( 1957-61 ) , 427-33 . 3 Anderson's intentions in undertaking a life of John- son XIII *
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