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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... criticism in good part , she returned to novel writing . Four years after Evelina , appeared Cecilia in 1782 ... critic considers this novel spoilt by attempting imitation of Johnson's style in the Rambler . An interesting circumstance ...
... criticism in good part , she returned to novel writing . Four years after Evelina , appeared Cecilia in 1782 ... critic considers this novel spoilt by attempting imitation of Johnson's style in the Rambler . An interesting circumstance ...
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... critic's witty remark to Dodsley the publisher , alluding to a law lately passed , ' he will be buried in woolen . ' Johnson , however , ends his own unfavourable criticism by quoting Akenside's words to a contrary effect , ' that he ...
... critic's witty remark to Dodsley the publisher , alluding to a law lately passed , ' he will be buried in woolen . ' Johnson , however , ends his own unfavourable criticism by quoting Akenside's words to a contrary effect , ' that he ...
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... criticism of Warburton's edition of Shakes- peare to a fly stinging a stately horse ; he speaks gratefully of Warburton in the preface to his own Shakespeare , and considered him a superior critic to Theobald . Mindful of Warburton's ...
... criticism of Warburton's edition of Shakes- peare to a fly stinging a stately horse ; he speaks gratefully of Warburton in the preface to his own Shakespeare , and considered him a superior critic to Theobald . Mindful of Warburton's ...
Contents
SAMUEL JOHNSON LL D 17091784 | 2 |
CONTEMPORARY BISHOPS OF LICHFIELD | 8 |
JOHNSON IN SCOTLAND | 14 |
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