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‘SAM. JOHNSON.’
Оглавление‘Nov. 21, 1754.’
[Page 275: Johnson desires the Degree of M.A. Ætat 45.]
The degree of Master of Arts, which, it has been observed[806], could not be obtained for him at an early period of his life, was now considered as an honour of considerable importance, in order to grace the title-page of his Dictionary; and his character in the literary world being by this time deservedly high, his friends thought that, if proper exertions were made, the University of Oxford would pay him the compliment[807].
‘To THE REVEREND MR. THOMAS WARTON.
