The Life of Samuel JohnsonGeorg Olms Verlag - 639 pages |
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... 9 has been retained . B. F. Nachdruck der Ausgabe Edinburgh 1815 Printed in Germany Herstellung : fotokop wilhelm weihert kg , Darmstadt ISBN 3 487 04534 6 INTRODUCTION Paul J. Korshin 1 Few of Johnson's early biographers.
... 9 has been retained . B. F. Nachdruck der Ausgabe Edinburgh 1815 Printed in Germany Herstellung : fotokop wilhelm weihert kg , Darmstadt ISBN 3 487 04534 6 INTRODUCTION Paul J. Korshin 1 Few of Johnson's early biographers.
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Robert Anderson. INTRODUCTION Paul J. Korshin 1 Few of Johnson's early biographers have been so un- justifiably neglected by twentieth - century Johnsonians as Robert Anderson . Most of the lesser writers are far better known . G. B. ...
Robert Anderson. INTRODUCTION Paul J. Korshin 1 Few of Johnson's early biographers have been so un- justifiably neglected by twentieth - century Johnsonians as Robert Anderson . Most of the lesser writers are far better known . G. B. ...
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... early lives of Johnson . For his creden- tials as a literary historian are too impressive to be ignored . His collection of The Works of the British Poets . With Prefaces , Biographical and Critical is one of the three major eighteenth ...
... early lives of Johnson . For his creden- tials as a literary historian are too impressive to be ignored . His collection of The Works of the British Poets . With Prefaces , Biographical and Critical is one of the three major eighteenth ...
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... early lives of Johnson was changed so radically in a later edition ( exclusive of scholia , as with Boswell ) . These circumstances are unusual in the history of Johnsonian biography and more than amply justify a closer examination of ...
... early lives of Johnson was changed so radically in a later edition ( exclusive of scholia , as with Boswell ) . These circumstances are unusual in the history of Johnsonian biography and more than amply justify a closer examination of ...
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... early notes , which are now in the Bodleian Library . But Percy must have included them with his other annotations , for those which Anderson prints verbatim in 1815 are almost identical to those among his manuscripts at Oxford . Percy ...
... early notes , which are now in the Bodleian Library . But Percy must have included them with his other annotations , for those which Anderson prints verbatim in 1815 are almost identical to those among his manuscripts at Oxford . Percy ...
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