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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... describes a visit to this place , and an excursion with Cambridge on the Severn . To this period belongs Cambridge's best - known work , The Scribbleriad , a mock - heroic poem , ridiculing false science and false taste . Later works ...
... describes a visit to this place , and an excursion with Cambridge on the Severn . To this period belongs Cambridge's best - known work , The Scribbleriad , a mock - heroic poem , ridiculing false science and false taste . Later works ...
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... describes Seward as ' doing good to everybody , but speak- ing well of nobody . ' One generous action was subscribing ten pounds towards purchasing an annuity for Porson , the celebrated Cambridge Greek professor . Fanny Burney records ...
... describes Seward as ' doing good to everybody , but speak- ing well of nobody . ' One generous action was subscribing ten pounds towards purchasing an annuity for Porson , the celebrated Cambridge Greek professor . Fanny Burney records ...
Page 290
... describe as pensioning a He - bear and a She - bear . " The two famous doctors , Shebbeare and Johnson , ' writes Wilkes , ' are in this reign the state hirelings called pensioners ... describes his old 290 JOHN SHEBBEARE, M D , 1709-1788.
... describe as pensioning a He - bear and a She - bear . " The two famous doctors , Shebbeare and Johnson , ' writes Wilkes , ' are in this reign the state hirelings called pensioners ... describes his old 290 JOHN SHEBBEARE, M D , 1709-1788.
Contents
SAMUEL JOHNSON LL D 17091784 | 2 |
CONTEMPORARY BISHOPS OF LICHFIELD | 8 |
JOHNSON IN SCOTLAND | 14 |
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