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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... added to his poetical works , as it has ever been admired in the closet , for the propriety of its sentiments and the elegance of its language . In 1750 , he commenced a work which raised his fame yet higher than it had ever yet reached ...
... added to his poetical works , as it has ever been admired in the closet , for the propriety of its sentiments and the elegance of its language . In 1750 , he commenced a work which raised his fame yet higher than it had ever yet reached ...
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... added , that his sun set with unrivalled splendour . But the infirmities of age were now undermining a constitution that had kept perpetual war with here- ditary disease , and his most valued friends were dropping into the grave before ...
... added , that his sun set with unrivalled splendour . But the infirmities of age were now undermining a constitution that had kept perpetual war with here- ditary disease , and his most valued friends were dropping into the grave before ...
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... added to so much unqualified praise from other quarters , I am afraid , prevented his attending to those defects which impartial criticism could not have con- cealed . In the following year , he published London , or the Progress of ...
... added to so much unqualified praise from other quarters , I am afraid , prevented his attending to those defects which impartial criticism could not have con- cealed . In the following year , he published London , or the Progress of ...
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... added , the masterly - drawn characters of Diomedon , Dithyrambus , Menelippus , Xerxes , Demaratus , Hyperanthus , Polydorus , and Artemisia . The character of Ar- temisia , I may here mention , was added to the edition of 1770 , with ...
... added , the masterly - drawn characters of Diomedon , Dithyrambus , Menelippus , Xerxes , Demaratus , Hyperanthus , Polydorus , and Artemisia . The character of Ar- temisia , I may here mention , was added to the edition of 1770 , with ...
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... added , that there are various repetitions , which mark the unfinished state in which the author has left this com- position . With all these faults , however , the Athenaid must be allowed to contain many splen- did passages , such as ...
... added , that there are various repetitions , which mark the unfinished state in which the author has left this com- position . With all these faults , however , the Athenaid must be allowed to contain many splen- did passages , such as ...
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