Prayers and meditations : composed by Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: manuscript, 1796.

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Prayers and meditations : composed by Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: manuscript, 1796.

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Selections from the work of the same name published in 1785, transcribed by Arabella Hutton in 1796, and annotated by her husband Mellor Hetherington in 1814.

1 v. (26 leaves) ; 20 cm.

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Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)

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Hetherington, Mellor,

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Hetherington, Arabella Hutton,

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...