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Page viii
... death in 1811 . Anderson first mentions his biography of Johnson in a letter of 29 October 1804 : A separate edition of the Life of Johnson was printed at the same time with the other , with the difference of a single paragraph at the ...
... death in 1811 . Anderson first mentions his biography of Johnson in a letter of 29 October 1804 : A separate edition of the Life of Johnson was printed at the same time with the other , with the difference of a single paragraph at the ...
Page xiii
... death in 1811 or , having completed them , delayed publication until his literary benefactor was several years dead . It is curious that he was so importunate in his efforts to extract these annotations and corrections from the ageing ...
... death in 1811 or , having completed them , delayed publication until his literary benefactor was several years dead . It is curious that he was so importunate in his efforts to extract these annotations and corrections from the ageing ...
Page xix
... death , and his religious terrors , not very consistent with his strength of mind , or his conviction of the goodness of God ( pp . 488-89 ) . 14 This important passage ( pp . 485–90 ) is a major ex- pansion from eds . 1 and 2 , where ...
... death , and his religious terrors , not very consistent with his strength of mind , or his conviction of the goodness of God ( pp . 488-89 ) . 14 This important passage ( pp . 485–90 ) is a major ex- pansion from eds . 1 and 2 , where ...
Page xxi
... death . Greatly expanded for the third edition , the critique in its final form is the most extended purely critical ap- proach to Johnson until the age of G. B. Hill and Leslie Stephen . It is instructive to compare it with the ...
... death . Greatly expanded for the third edition , the critique in its final form is the most extended purely critical ap- proach to Johnson until the age of G. B. Hill and Leslie Stephen . It is instructive to compare it with the ...
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