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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. DEARBORN CAMPUS LIBRARY : 57 1794 vol N.64 V co CONTE OF THE NT S FIRST VOLUM E. COWLEY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHICAN.
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. DEARBORN CAMPUS LIBRARY : 57 1794 vol N.64 V co CONTE OF THE NT S FIRST VOLUM E. COWLEY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHICAN.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. co CONTE OF THE NT S FIRST VOLUM E. COWLEY , p . t DENHAM , 97 MILTON , 113 BUTLER , 255 ROCHESTER , 280 ROSCOMMON , 292 OTWAY , 308 WALLER , 316 POMFRET , 396 DORSET , 398 ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. co CONTE OF THE NT S FIRST VOLUM E. COWLEY , p . t DENHAM , 97 MILTON , 113 BUTLER , 255 ROCHESTER , 280 ROSCOMMON , 292 OTWAY , 308 WALLER , 316 POMFRET , 396 DORSET , 398 ...
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... first fondness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was ad- mitted into Westminster - school , where he was foon diftinguished . He was wont , fays Sprat , to relate , " That he ...
... first fondness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was ad- mitted into Westminster - school , where he was foon diftinguished . He was wont , fays Sprat , to relate , " That he ...
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... first edition of his Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " was never inferted in any collection of his works ; " but he altered the expreffion when the Lives were coilected into volumes . The fatire was added to Cowley's works by the particular ...
... first edition of his Life , Dr. Johnson wrote , " was never inferted in any collection of his works ; " but he altered the expreffion when the Lives were coilected into volumes . The fatire was added to Cowley's works by the particular ...
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... First let him fee his friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall cease , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall ...
... First let him fee his friends in battle flain , And their untimely fate lament in vain : And when , at length , the cruel war fhall cease , On hard conditions may he buy his peace ; Nor let him then enjoy fupreme command , But fall ...
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