The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Cowley, Denham, MiltonAlexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson J. Johnson; J. Nichols and son; R. Baldwin; F. and C. Rivington; W. Otridge and Son; Leigh and Sotheby; R. Faulder and Son; G. Nicol and Son; T. Payne; G. Robinson; Wilkie and Robinson; C. Davies; T. Egerton; Scatcherd and Letterman; J. Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R. Lea; J. Nunn; Lackington, Allen, and Company; J. Stockdale; Cuthell and Martin; Clarke and Sons; J. White and Company; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; J. Barker; John Richardson; J.M. Richardson; J. Carpenter; B. Crosby; E. Jeffery; J. Murray; W. Miller; J. and A. Arch; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J. Booker; S. Bagster; J. Harding; J. Mackinlay; J. Hatchard; R.H. Evans; Matthews and Leigh; J. Mawman; J. Booth; J. Asperne; P. and W. Wynne; and W. Grace, Deighton and Son at Cambridge; and Wilson and Son at York, 1810 - English poetry |
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... known , that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty , then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he ...
... known , that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty , then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he ...
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... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased , as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in ...
... known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased , as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in ...
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... known ; I must therefore recommend the pe- rusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender sup- plement . 1 Now in the possession of Mr. Clark , alderman of London . Mr. Clark was in 1798 elected to the ...
... known ; I must therefore recommend the pe- rusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender sup- plement . 1 Now in the possession of Mr. Clark , alderman of London . Mr. Clark was in 1798 elected to the ...
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... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt . The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt . The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
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... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illustrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
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