Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Том 1J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 страници |
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... JOHNSON . SAMUEL AMUEL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield , in Staffordshire , on September the 7th , 1709. From his father , who was a native of Cubley in Derby- shire , and a bookseller at Lichfield , he inherited that morbid melancholy ...
... JOHNSON . SAMUEL AMUEL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield , in Staffordshire , on September the 7th , 1709. From his father , who was a native of Cubley in Derby- shire , and a bookseller at Lichfield , he inherited that morbid melancholy ...
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... Johnson , and on the 31st of October , 1728 , they were both entered of Pembroke College : it is uncertain , however , notwithstanding a previous promise of support , whether Johnson received any pecuniary assist- ance from Mr. Corbet ...
... Johnson , and on the 31st of October , 1728 , they were both entered of Pembroke College : it is uncertain , however , notwithstanding a previous promise of support , whether Johnson received any pecuniary assist- ance from Mr. Corbet ...
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... Johnson's which was published ; his father , with an excusable vanity , having printed it at Lichfield without the consent of his son , and it afterwards appeared in a Poetical Miscellany at Oxford , in 1731. With this version Pope was ...
... Johnson's which was published ; his father , with an excusable vanity , having printed it at Lichfield without the consent of his son , and it afterwards appeared in a Poetical Miscellany at Oxford , in 1731. With this version Pope was ...
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... Johnson has prefixed a preface , and a dedication in the name of his bookseller to John Warren , Esq . of Pembrokeshire . The produc tion is remarkable on two accounts ; as the first prose composition of Johnson , and as containing a ...
... Johnson has prefixed a preface , and a dedication in the name of his bookseller to John Warren , Esq . of Pembrokeshire . The produc tion is remarkable on two accounts ; as the first prose composition of Johnson , and as containing a ...
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... Johnson's atten tion to the version of Le Grand might have in- duced him , many years afterwards , to place the chief scene of his Rasselas in Abyssinia . Shortly after the ... JOHNSON . volume was 122 LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON ,
... Johnson's atten tion to the version of Le Grand might have in- duced him , many years afterwards , to place the chief scene of his Rasselas in Abyssinia . Shortly after the ... JOHNSON . volume was 122 LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON ,
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