The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... effect . He tells us , that the Bookworm is borrowed from Beza ; but he should have added , with modern ap- plications and when he discovers that Gay Bacchus is tranflated from Augurellus , he ought to have remarked that the latter part ...
... effect . He tells us , that the Bookworm is borrowed from Beza ; but he should have added , with modern ap- plications and when he discovers that Gay Bacchus is tranflated from Augurellus , he ought to have remarked that the latter part ...
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... effect of the fiction . Lothario , with gaiety which cannot be hated , and bravery which cannot be defpifed , retains too much of the fpectator's kindness . It was in the power of Richardfon alone to teach us at once efteem and detef ...
... effect of the fiction . Lothario , with gaiety which cannot be hated , and bravery which cannot be defpifed , retains too much of the fpectator's kindness . It was in the power of Richardfon alone to teach us at once efteem and detef ...
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... effect of his civility rather than ap- probation . Three of his Latin poems are upon fubjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and a ...
... effect of his civility rather than ap- probation . Three of his Latin poems are upon fubjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and a ...
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... effect of * A letter which I found among Dr. Johnfon's papers , dated in January 1784 , from a lady in Wiltshire , contains a discovery of some importance in literary hiftory , viz . that by the initials H. S. prefixed to this poem , we ...
... effect of * A letter which I found among Dr. Johnfon's papers , dated in January 1784 , from a lady in Wiltshire , contains a discovery of some importance in literary hiftory , viz . that by the initials H. S. prefixed to this poem , we ...
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... effect of a mu- fical Drama in our own language . He therefore wrote the opera of Rofamond , which , when exhibited on the stage , was either hiffed or neglected ; but trust- ing that the readers would do him more juftice , he published ...
... effect of a mu- fical Drama in our own language . He therefore wrote the opera of Rofamond , which , when exhibited on the stage , was either hiffed or neglected ; but trust- ing that the readers would do him more juftice , he published ...
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