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... literary biographies or of his 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 ...
... literary biographies or of his 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 ...
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... 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- and early nineteenth- century anthologies of ...
... 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- and early nineteenth- century anthologies of ...
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... Literary History of the Eighteenth Century , 8 vols . ( London , 1817-58 ) , VII , 136. Nichols prints a large selection from the Anderson- Percy correspondence , so far the only accumulation of Anderson's letters to appear in print . 7 ...
... Literary History of the Eighteenth Century , 8 vols . ( London , 1817-58 ) , VII , 136. Nichols prints a large selection from the Anderson- Percy correspondence , so far the only accumulation of Anderson's letters to appear in print . 7 ...
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... literary history . Anderson made considerable use of Percy's anno- tations . He prints many of them in his 1815 edition as separate footnotes , always properly attributed . But much more of Percy's material must have silently found its ...
... literary history . Anderson made considerable use of Percy's anno- tations . He prints many of them in his 1815 edition as separate footnotes , always properly attributed . But much more of Percy's material must have silently found its ...
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... 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 , nearly blind prelate for a new edition which was scheduled for ...
... 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 , nearly blind prelate for a new edition which was scheduled for ...
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