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Page v
... critical 1 An edition of the pre - Boswell minor lives by Robert E. Kelley and O M Brack , Jr. has been announced by the University of Iowa Press . 2 See Allen T. Hazen , Samuel Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications ( New Haven : Yale ...
... critical 1 An edition of the pre - Boswell minor lives by Robert E. Kelley and O M Brack , Jr. has been announced by the University of Iowa Press . 2 See Allen T. Hazen , Samuel Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications ( New Haven : Yale ...
Page vi
... Critical is one of the three major eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century anthologies of English poetry . This ambitious work is far more comprehensive in its treatment of earlier literature than its two more popular compe- titors ...
... Critical is one of the three major eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century anthologies of English poetry . This ambitious work is far more comprehensive in its treatment of earlier literature than its two more popular compe- titors ...
Page vii
... LL . D. with critical observations on his works , suggests an effort to compete with other lives of Johnson , particularly those of Boswell and Murphy . twice its original length with significant new material . Except VII *
... LL . D. with critical observations on his works , suggests an effort to compete with other lives of Johnson , particularly those of Boswell and Murphy . twice its original length with significant new material . Except VII *
Page xi
... critical of people still living as well as of Johnson himself . From this letter we may conclude that he found the earlier version of Anderson's Life guilty of some of these faults . Several of Percy's individual comments deserve ...
... critical of people still living as well as of Johnson himself . From this letter we may conclude that he found the earlier version of Anderson's Life guilty of some of these faults . Several of Percy's individual comments deserve ...
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... critical interpreter to evaluate Johnson's achievement from a distance . We see in Percy's letter the conflict between the somewhat partisan friend , in- volved with the man's personal reputation , and the relatively disinterested ...
... critical interpreter to evaluate Johnson's achievement from a distance . We see in Percy's letter the conflict between the somewhat partisan friend , in- volved with the man's personal reputation , and the relatively disinterested ...
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