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Page v
... known . G. B. Hill long ago made available some of the pre - 1800 memoirists in his Johnsonian Miscel- lanies ( 1897 ) ; all the minor lives that appeared before Boswell have recently been collected for the first time ; and even some of ...
... known . G. B. Hill long ago made available some of the pre - 1800 memoirists in his Johnsonian Miscel- lanies ( 1897 ) ; all the minor lives that appeared before Boswell have recently been collected for the first time ; and even some of ...
Page xi
... known melancholy , but Anderson would be the first to look more pro- foundly at the causative qualities of his mental con- dition . It is also significant that Percy objects to accu- sations that Johnson was indolent , and argues ...
... known melancholy , but Anderson would be the first to look more pro- foundly at the causative qualities of his mental con- dition . It is also significant that Percy objects to accu- sations that Johnson was indolent , and argues ...
Page xii
... known collections of his books , at the University of Belfast and the Bodleian Library . To the best of my 9 See the sale catalogue of The Library of Thomas Percy , 1729-1811 , Bishop of Dromore ( London : Sotheby & Co. , 23 June 1969 ) ...
... known collections of his books , at the University of Belfast and the Bodleian Library . To the best of my 9 See the sale catalogue of The Library of Thomas Percy , 1729-1811 , Bishop of Dromore ( London : Sotheby & Co. , 23 June 1969 ) ...
Page xiii
... known to exist . Anderson probably never intended to return the interleaved copy to Percy , since it is evident from their letters that he wanted to use it in the pre- paration of his third edition . Moreover , he either did not begin ...
... known to exist . Anderson probably never intended to return the interleaved copy to Percy , since it is evident from their letters that he wanted to use it in the pre- paration of his third edition . Moreover , he either did not begin ...
Page xiv
... The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth - Century England ( Princeton : Princeton Uni- versity Press , 1970 ) , pp . 415-22 . See also the New CBEL , II , 1801-03 . Since he had never known Johnson personally , his chief XIV *
... The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth - Century England ( Princeton : Princeton Uni- versity Press , 1970 ) , pp . 415-22 . See also the New CBEL , II , 1801-03 . Since he had never known Johnson personally , his chief XIV *
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