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http://garamond.stanford.edu/depts/spc/johnson/images.html
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Edmund Burke
IR 1729-1797
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/31/
100-best-nonfiction-books-reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france-edmund-burke
Horace Walpole
UK
1717-1797
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/yourlondon/restoration/restoration_2004/horace_walpole.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/restoration/profiles/?2
Edward Gibbon
1737-1794
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/04/
100-best-nonfiction-books-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire-edward-gibbon
Robert Burns
1759-1796
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/robertburns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/31/robert-burns-poetry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jan/01/robert-burns-letters
http://burnsletters.wordpress.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/10/robertburns
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jan/25/historybooks.comment
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/19/poetry.classics
Samuel Johnson
Byname Dr. Johnson 1709-1784

http://garamond.stanford.edu/depts/spc/johnson/images.html
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http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/johnson/sjov.html
http://www.nbbl.demon.co.uk/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/classics.wordsandlanguage
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/classics.wordsandlanguage1
http://garamond.stanford.edu/depts/spc/johnson/intro.html
Thomas Gray
1716-1771
http://www.thomasgray.org/
Laurence Sterne
1713-1768
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne
Samuel Richardson
1689-1761
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/14/
100-best-books-clarissa-samuel-richardson
Jonathan Swift
1667-1745
pseudonyms:
Isaac Bickerstaff, A Dissenter,
A Person of Quality,
A Person of Honour, M.B. Drapier,
T.R.D.J.S.D.O.P.I.I.
(The Reverend Doctor Jonathan Switft,
Dean of Partick's in Ireland)
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/swiftov.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/jonathanswift
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/06/
100-novels-swift-gullivers-travels-mccrum
the Scriblerus Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriblerus_Club
Alexander Pope
1688-1744
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope
John Gay
1685-1732
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gay
Daniel Defoe 1660
- 1731
original surname Foe, Defoe altered it in 1703
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Defoe
18th and 19th century journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
John Evelyn
1620-1706
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Evelyn
Samuel Pepys
1633-1703
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pepys_samuel.shtml
Henry Vaughan
1621-1695
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/09/
poem-of-the-week-henry-vaughan
John Bunyan 1628-1688
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/23/
100-best-novels-pilgrims-progress
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
1647-1680
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2009/feb/25/
poetry-wilmot-earl-rochester
John Milton
1608-1674
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/englishcivilwar/index.shtml
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