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Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. J7 1765 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN Printed by Richard Clay ( The Chaucer Press ) , Ltd. , Bungay , Suffolk Set in Baskerville 11 point , leaded 1 point Gravure illustrations printed by D. H. Greaves Ltd ...
Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. J7 1765 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN Printed by Richard Clay ( The Chaucer Press ) , Ltd. , Bungay , Suffolk Set in Baskerville 11 point , leaded 1 point Gravure illustrations printed by D. H. Greaves Ltd ...
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... printed for the subscribers . Lintot printed two hundred and fifty on royal paper in Folio for two guineas a volume ; of the small Folio , having printed seventeen hundred and fifty copies of the first volume , he reduced the number in ...
... printed for the subscribers . Lintot printed two hundred and fifty on royal paper in Folio for two guineas a volume ; of the small Folio , having printed seventeen hundred and fifty copies of the first volume , he reduced the number in ...
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... printed as a fragment , and among them the satirical lines upon Addison , of which the last couplet has been twice corrected . It was at first , Then , At last it is , Who would not smile if such a man there be ? Who would not laugh if ...
... printed as a fragment , and among them the satirical lines upon Addison , of which the last couplet has been twice corrected . It was at first , Then , At last it is , Who would not smile if such a man there be ? Who would not laugh if ...
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Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote