The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;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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... college , had not a gentleman of Shropshire , one of his school - fellows , spontaneously under- taken to support him at Oxford , in the character of his companion , though , in fact , he never received any assistance whatever from that ...
... college , had not a gentleman of Shropshire , one of his school - fellows , spontaneously under- taken to support him at Oxford , in the character of his companion , though , in fact , he never received any assistance whatever from that ...
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Samuel Johnson. In the same year , he received a diploma from Trinity College Dublin , compliment . ing him with the title of doctor of laws , and after many delays , his edition of Shak- speare was published in eight volumes octavo ...
Samuel Johnson. In the same year , he received a diploma from Trinity College Dublin , compliment . ing him with the title of doctor of laws , and after many delays , his edition of Shak- speare was published in eight volumes octavo ...
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... college by the interest of Mr. Bromley , afterward lord Montfort . Of his behaviour while at school his biographer , Mr. Mason , received the following account from Dr. Balguy . " He was always of a delicate turn , and though obliged to ...
... college by the interest of Mr. Bromley , afterward lord Montfort . Of his behaviour while at school his biographer , Mr. Mason , received the following account from Dr. Balguy . " He was always of a delicate turn , and though obliged to ...
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... College . Being now superannuate , he left Winchester of course , deriving no other advantage from the college than a good education : this , however , he had ingenuity enough to acknowledge , with gratitude , in a poem prefixed to the ...
... College . Being now superannuate , he left Winchester of course , deriving no other advantage from the college than a good education : this , however , he had ingenuity enough to acknowledge , with gratitude , in a poem prefixed to the ...
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... college , Mr. Mason informs us , that he was less eager for poetical fame than desirous of obtaining a maintenance by the labours of his pen , that he might be less burthensome to his mother . With this laudable view , he practised the ...
... college , Mr. Mason informs us , that he was less eager for poetical fame than desirous of obtaining a maintenance by the labours of his pen , that he might be less burthensome to his mother . With this laudable view , he practised the ...
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