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Life of Johnson, Volume 4, 1780-1784

Note 143 — THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

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Horace Walpole (Letters, vii. 452) writes of Johnson's 'Billingsgate on Milton.' A later letter shows that, like so many of Johnson's critics, he had not read the Life. Ib. p. 508.

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