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Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1, by Samuel Johnson [AKA Hurlo Thrumbo]

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Title: The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1

Author: Samuel Johnson [AKA Hurlo Thrumbo]

Commentator: George R. Guffey

Contributor: James Roberts

Release Date: February 11, 2007 [EBook #20558]

Language: English

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The Augustan Reprint Society

THE
MERRY-THOUGHT:

or, the
Glass-Window and Bog-House
MISCELLANY.

Part I
(_1731_)

_Introduction by_
GEORGE R. GUFFEY

Publication Number _216_
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
_1982_

GENERAL EDITOR

David Stuart Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_

EDITORS

Charles L. Batten, _University of California, Los Angeles_
George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Thomas Wright, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_

ADVISORY EDITORS

Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_
William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_
Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_
Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_
Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_
Earl Miner, _Princeton University_
Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_
James Sutherland, _University Colle