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

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Jeronimo Lobo

  

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Jeronimo Lobo : Voyage to Abyssinia , A

'[referring to his translation of Lobo's "Voyage to Abyssinia"] Johnson upon this exerted the powers of his mind, though his body was relaxed. He lay in bed with the book, which was a quarto, before him, and dictated while Hector wrote'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book
  

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