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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - Page 113
by James Boswell - 1835
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The Modern British Essayists: Carlyle, Thomas. Critical and miscellaneous essays

1852 - 590 pages
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Samuel Johnson

Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 pages
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The National Magazine, Volume 2

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
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Works, Including His Letters to His Son, &c: To which is Prefixed an ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1

John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
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Recollections of a Literary Life

Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
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Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets: Chronologically Arranged ...

1857 - 574 pages
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