Who's who in Boswell?Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and sold by B. Blackwell, 1935 - Biography & Autobiography - 366 pages |
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Page 46
... appeared , which were dispatched and duly treasured . Hearing of the incident years afterwards , Johnson sent Bewley , through Dr Burney's means , his Lives of the Poets , directed , with the giver's compliments , ' For the broom ...
... appeared , which were dispatched and duly treasured . Hearing of the incident years afterwards , Johnson sent Bewley , through Dr Burney's means , his Lives of the Poets , directed , with the giver's compliments , ' For the broom ...
Page 129
... appeared first in Othello at the Haymarket in 1744. After a ' theatrical trial at Dublin , he acted various characters at Drury Lane . Coming into collision with the Westminster magistrates , he gave instead entertainments consisting of ...
... appeared first in Othello at the Haymarket in 1744. After a ' theatrical trial at Dublin , he acted various characters at Drury Lane . Coming into collision with the Westminster magistrates , he gave instead entertainments consisting of ...
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... appeared in 1791. Warton places Pope among second- class poets , between Milton and Dryden . In Lives of the Poets , Johnson sug- gests the question , ' If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? ' He thought a thousand years ...
... appeared in 1791. Warton places Pope among second- class poets , between Milton and Dryden . In Lives of the Poets , Johnson sug- gests the question , ' If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? ' He thought a thousand years ...
Contents
SAMUEL JOHNSON LL D 17091784 | 2 |
CONTEMPORARY BISHOPS OF LICHFIELD | 8 |
JOHNSON IN SCOTLAND | 14 |
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