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... literature . For many years the walks were humble indeed . A newly - founded journal , The Gentleman's Magazine , edited by Edward Cave , was the medium of Johnson's first contri- butions to periodical literature . Odes , epigrams ...
... literature . For many years the walks were humble indeed . A newly - founded journal , The Gentleman's Magazine , edited by Edward Cave , was the medium of Johnson's first contri- butions to periodical literature . Odes , epigrams ...
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... advantage to the common workman . The two massive folios which appeared in 1755 may well have seemed a formidable tool to be used by the common workman of literature . But in lexicography Johnson was a 18 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... advantage to the common workman . The two massive folios which appeared in 1755 may well have seemed a formidable tool to be used by the common workman of literature . But in lexicography Johnson was a 18 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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... literature is what I love most ' , and in these Lives he was concerned at least as much with fact and anecdote as with theories of poetry . He made no attempt to separate the poetry from the personality of the poet , and if he disliked ...
... literature is what I love most ' , and in these Lives he was concerned at least as much with fact and anecdote as with theories of poetry . He made no attempt to separate the poetry from the personality of the poet , and if he disliked ...
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