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Page vii
... original we might logically expect the biblio- graphical history of Anderson's Life to cease . Excluding Mrs. Thrale's Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson and Murphy's Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson , none of the pre ...
... original we might logically expect the biblio- graphical history of Anderson's Life to cease . Excluding Mrs. Thrale's Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson and Murphy's Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson , none of the pre ...
Page 309
... original Dedication , and substituted an elegant and * The following paragraph of a letter from Bishop Percy , to the present writer , dated , London , June 18 , 1800 , is transcribed here , as it allows him to say , that although the ...
... original Dedication , and substituted an elegant and * The following paragraph of a letter from Bishop Percy , to the present writer , dated , London , June 18 , 1800 , is transcribed here , as it allows him to say , that although the ...
Page 573
... original . The chris- tian had to struggle with the heathen poet , and has manifested a superiority , by the sub- stitution of a purer and more sublime system of morality , sanctioned by the solemnity and pathos of the Christian code ...
... original . The chris- tian had to struggle with the heathen poet , and has manifested a superiority , by the sub- stitution of a purer and more sublime system of morality , sanctioned by the solemnity and pathos of the Christian code ...
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