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Pagina xiv
... poets ! I amused my readers because I was first amused myself by the absurdities which I everywhere found in these writers , and by the odd fancies which rose in my mind as I read their works . ' At last the minor poets overwhelmed him ...
... poets ! I amused my readers because I was first amused myself by the absurdities which I everywhere found in these writers , and by the odd fancies which rose in my mind as I read their works . ' At last the minor poets overwhelmed him ...
Pagina xxv
... POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . Io vols . ) the advertisement is dated March 15 , 1779 . 2 [ Mr. Edward Dilly , the book- seller , writing to Boswell on Sept. 26 , 1777 , gives the following account of ' this plan ...
... POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . Io vols . ) the advertisement is dated March 15 , 1779 . 2 [ Mr. Edward Dilly , the book- seller , writing to Boswell on Sept. 26 , 1777 , gives the following account of ' this plan ...
Pagina xxvi
... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. ' Underneath , in Johnson's autograph , are these words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither ...
... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. ' Underneath , in Johnson's autograph , are these words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither ...
Pagina xxvi
... Poets , which hundred ; on this occasion Dr. John- however is not easy , because they son observed to me- " Sir , I have are not to be bought unless you buy always said the booksellers were a also a perfect litter of poets in ...
... Poets , which hundred ; on this occasion Dr. John- however is not easy , because they son observed to me- " Sir , I have are not to be bought unless you buy always said the booksellers were a also a perfect litter of poets in ...
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... Poets . ' Boswell's Johnson , iv . 38 . 2 ' Talking of biography , Dr. John- son said he did not think that the life of any literary man in England had been well written . ' Boswell's Johnson , v . 240. See also ib . ii . 40 . 3 Post ...
... Poets . ' Boswell's Johnson , iv . 38 . 2 ' Talking of biography , Dr. John- son said he did not think that the life of any literary man in England had been well written . ' Boswell's Johnson , v . 240. See also ib . ii . 40 . 3 Post ...
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