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... authour of a Hudibrastic ver- sion of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Eneid ; of some poems in Dodsley's collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to any thing . He shewed me a ...
... authour of a Hudibrastic ver- sion of Maphæus's Canto , in addition to the Eneid ; of some poems in Dodsley's collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to any thing . He shewed me a ...
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... authour of an excellent TREA- TISE OF EQUITY , printed anonymously in 1742 , and lately republished with very valuable additions , by John Fonblanque , Esq . See Gentleman's Magazine , for 1782 , and Hawkins's Life of Johnson , p . 244 ...
... authour of an excellent TREA- TISE OF EQUITY , printed anonymously in 1742 , and lately republished with very valuable additions , by John Fonblanque , Esq . See Gentleman's Magazine , for 1782 , and Hawkins's Life of Johnson , p . 244 ...
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... authour of the " Dictionary of Ancient Geography , " came in . He men- tioned that he had been forty years absent from Scotland , Ah , Boswell ! ( said Johnson , smiling , ) what would you give to be forty years from Scotland ? " I said ...
... authour of the " Dictionary of Ancient Geography , " came in . He men- tioned that he had been forty years absent from Scotland , Ah , Boswell ! ( said Johnson , smiling , ) what would you give to be forty years from Scotland ? " I said ...
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... authour's com- positions , at different periods . We talked of Flatman's Poems ; and Mrs. Thrale observed , that Pope had partly borrow- ed from him , " The dying Christian to his Soul . " Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upon ...
... authour's com- positions , at different periods . We talked of Flatman's Poems ; and Mrs. Thrale observed , that Pope had partly borrow- ed from him , " The dying Christian to his Soul . " Johnson repeated Rochester's verses upon ...
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James Boswell. He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour ; observing that " he was thirty years in preparing his History , and that he employed a man to point it for him ; as if ( laughing ) another man could point his ...
James Boswell. He talked of Lord Lyttelton's extreme anxiety as an authour ; observing that " he was thirty years in preparing his History , and that he employed a man to point it for him ; as if ( laughing ) another man could point his ...
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