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... English Literary History Essays and Studies Sir John Hawkins , The Life of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. ( London , 1787 ) Journal of English and Germanic Philology The Letters of Samuel Johnson , ed . R. W. Chapman , 3 vols ( Oxford , 1952 ) ...
... English Literary History Essays and Studies Sir John Hawkins , The Life of Samuel Johnson , LL.D. ( London , 1787 ) Journal of English and Germanic Philology The Letters of Samuel Johnson , ed . R. W. Chapman , 3 vols ( Oxford , 1952 ) ...
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... English literature from Elizabethan to Augustan times ; noting usage , isolating the 40,000 words he selected for definition in their various senses , in passages which illustrated their meaning ( about 114,000 quotations in all ) . The ...
... English literature from Elizabethan to Augustan times ; noting usage , isolating the 40,000 words he selected for definition in their various senses , in passages which illustrated their meaning ( about 114,000 quotations in all ) . The ...
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... English ; from Greek into English ; and occasionally from French , Italian or Spanish into English . Alternatively , there are translations into Latin : his undergraduate translation of Pope's Messiah , or his one hundred or so ...
... English ; from Greek into English ; and occasionally from French , Italian or Spanish into English . Alternatively , there are translations into Latin : his undergraduate translation of Pope's Messiah , or his one hundred or so ...
Contents
surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
Copyright | |
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