A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786)Courtenay, John
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A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson (1786)
Courtenay, John
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Poetry
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REGULAR PUBLICATIONS FOR 1968-1969
133. John Courtenay, _A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral
Character of the Late Samuel Johnson_ (1786). Introduction by Robert
E. Kelley.
134. John Downes, _Roscius Anglicanus_ (1708). Introduction by John
Loftis.
135. Sir John Hill, _Hypochondriasis, a Practical Treatise on the
Nature and Cure of that Disorder Call'd the Hyp or Hypo_ (1766).
Introduction by G. S. Rousseau.
136. Thomas Sheridan, _Discourse ... Being Introductory to His Course
of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language_ (1759).
Introduction by G. P. Mohrman.
137. Arthur Murphy, _The Englishman From Paris_ (1756). Introduction
by Simon Trefman. Previously unpublished manuscript.
138. [Catherine Trotter], _Olinda's Adventures_ (1718). Introduction
by Robert Adams Day.
SPECIAL PUBLICATION FOR 1968-1969
_After THE TEMPEST._ Introduction by George Robert Guffey.
Next in the continuing series of special publications by the Society
will be _After THE TEMPEST_, a volume including the Dryden-Davenant
version of _The Tempest_ (1670); the "operatic" _Tempest_ (1674);
Thomas Duffet's _Mock-Tempest_ (1675); and the "Garrick" _Tempest_
(1756), with an Introduction by George Robert Guffey.
Already published in this series are:
1. John Ogilby, _The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse_ (1668),
with an Introduction by Earl Miner.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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