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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... thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction ... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of The Guardian for the stage , he produced it 7 under the title of The ...
... thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction ... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of The Guardian for the stage , he produced it 7 under the title of The ...
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... thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose ...
... thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose ...
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... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is ...
... thought , but was never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is ...
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... thought , which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always ...
... thought , which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always ...
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... thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the series of ... thought ́sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so ...
... thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the series of ... thought ́sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so ...
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