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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... readers in the pride of fagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expreffed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight in the quict of Aican- town . B 2 In 1708 , when lord Wharton ...
... readers in the pride of fagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expreffed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight in the quict of Aican- town . B 2 In 1708 , when lord Wharton ...
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... reader , and often from himself . In his twenty - fecond year he first fhewed his power of English poetry , by fome verfes addreffed to Dry- den ; and foon afterwards published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick ...
... reader , and often from himself . In his twenty - fecond year he first fhewed his power of English poetry , by fome verfes addreffed to Dry- den ; and foon afterwards published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick ...
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... was a fellow of Merton college , a contemporary , and intimate with Mr. Addison in Oxford , who died near 50 years ago , a prebendary of Winchester . + Spence . judge- judgement . It is necessary to inform the reader , ADDISON . 45.
... was a fellow of Merton college , a contemporary , and intimate with Mr. Addison in Oxford , who died near 50 years ago , a prebendary of Winchester . + Spence . judge- judgement . It is necessary to inform the reader , ADDISON . 45.
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Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. judgement . It is necessary to inform the reader , that about this time he was introduced by Congreve to Montague , then Chancellor of the Exchequer : Addi- fon was then learning the trade of a courtier ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. judgement . It is necessary to inform the reader , that about this time he was introduced by Congreve to Montague , then Chancellor of the Exchequer : Addi- fon was then learning the trade of a courtier ...
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... , and variegation of profe and verfe , how- ever , gains upon the reader ; and the book , though a while neglected , became in time fo much the favourite of of the publick , that before it was reprinted it ADDISON , 47.
... , and variegation of profe and verfe , how- ever , gains upon the reader ; and the book , though a while neglected , became in time fo much the favourite of of the publick , that before it was reprinted it ADDISON , 47.
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