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" To adjust the minute events of literary history, is tedious and troublesome ; it requires indeed no great force of understanding, but often depends upon enquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not... "
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical ... - Page iii
by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pages
...find any thing that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history, is...enquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand. The Rehearsal was played in 1671*,...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...find any thing that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...find any thing that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history, is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...find any thing that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history, is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 96, Part 1

1826 - 738 pages
...si conferat Indus opes." Nomiiia Quorundam, $(c. <• Randall, p. S. Mr. UKBAN, Ipswich, April 29. TO adjust the minute events of literary history, is...enquiries which there is no opportunity of making. This remark of an eminent moralist is amply veriBed in the following notices; in which an attempt is...
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...ten guineas. Malone.— JB not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries, which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...find any thing that might not have been written without BO long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. . On February 17, 1719-20, the play was represented,...author died. He lived to hear that it was well received inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...by Langbalne. Only one of these plays appeared in 1678: nor were there more than three ID any year. To adjust the minute events of literary history, is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from book? and pamphlet!) not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...find any thing that might not nave been written, without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. d Pope in his local manners. The notions of Drvden...and those ofPope by minute attention. There is more upim inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...find any thing that might not nave been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. diversity of sentiments, such as literature, morality, and familiar life. To this pract indeeil no great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is до opportunity...
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