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Student notes of the ‘Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres’ of Hugh Blair.
File
Identifier: MS.850
Scope and Contents
The lectures contain (folios 51 verso, 59 verso, 76 verso) the criticisms of Dr Johnson omitted from the published ‘Lectures’, and in particular the rendering of a passage of Addison in the style of Johnson (folio 83) quoted in part by Boswell in his ‘Life’ (edited by Birkbeck Hill, 1934, etc., volume iii, page 172).
Dates:
18th century.