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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... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not retain from am- plifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory , admitting some things , and rejecting others , an ...
... thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not retain from am- plifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory , admitting some things , and rejecting others , an ...
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... things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterward earl of Arlington , from April to December , in 1650 ...
... things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters to Mr. Bennet , afterward earl of Arlington , from April to December , in 1650 ...
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... things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult ...
... things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play , it is difficult ...
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... things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the be- ginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers , that may be termed the ...
... things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the be- ginning of the seventeenth century , appeared a race of writers , that may be termed the ...
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... things is he ; Yet are the trunks , which do to us derive Things in proportion , fit by perspective , Deeds of good men ; for by their living here , Virtues , indeed remote , seem to be near . Who would imagine it possible , that in a ...
... things is he ; Yet are the trunks , which do to us derive Things in proportion , fit by perspective , Deeds of good men ; for by their living here , Virtues , indeed remote , seem to be near . Who would imagine it possible , that in a ...
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