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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson

  

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Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson : fifth Eclogue

'Did not Virgil mean by his Epithet [italics] Puniceis [end italics] to Rosetis in the fifth Eclogue the rose of Tyrian Dye! The [italics] Punic [end italics] or Damask Rose. I perswaded Johnson to believe it one day at Streatham as we read the Eclogue together - in the Year 1769'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson     Print: Book
  

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