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Arthur Sherbo. Writing to John Johnston in 1765 from Prescia in Italy , he called Addison " my Classic while I travel in Italy , and the least expres- sion of so favourite an Authour valued by me like the least bits of the precious ...
Arthur Sherbo. Writing to John Johnston in 1765 from Prescia in Italy , he called Addison " my Classic while I travel in Italy , and the least expres- sion of so favourite an Authour valued by me like the least bits of the precious ...
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... Italy to which Boswell refers is mentioned a number of other times in this Correspondence . 5Life , 1 : 224-25 . In this latter comparison I have been anticipated by Irma S. Lustig , " Boswell's Literary Criticism in The Life of Johnson ...
... Italy to which Boswell refers is mentioned a number of other times in this Correspondence . 5Life , 1 : 224-25 . In this latter comparison I have been anticipated by Irma S. Lustig , " Boswell's Literary Criticism in The Life of Johnson ...
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... Italian lines " set by Piccini " ( sic ) , the composer Niccolò Piccinni , and remarks , “ The following imitation misses its effect , because the measure is unfavourable , yet may serve to convey the idea . " The Italian verses are ...
... Italian lines " set by Piccini " ( sic ) , the composer Niccolò Piccinni , and remarks , “ The following imitation misses its effect , because the measure is unfavourable , yet may serve to convey the idea . " The Italian verses are ...
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Paging Through Boswells Life of Johnson | 3 |
Notes on Johnsons Hebridean Jaunt | 15 |
Johnsons Early Translations from Virgil Homer and Horace | 23 |
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