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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... biographers . He had , indeed , a retentive me- mory , and soon discovered symptoms of an impetuous temper , but these circum- stances are not enough to distinguish him from hundreds of children who never at- tain eminence . In his ...
... biographers . He had , indeed , a retentive me- mory , and soon discovered symptoms of an impetuous temper , but these circum- stances are not enough to distinguish him from hundreds of children who never at- tain eminence . In his ...
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... with which Johnson composed . He wrote forty - eight pages of the printed copy in the course of a day , or night , for it is not very clear which . His biographer who records this , enters at the same THE LIFE OF JOHNSON . 555.
... with which Johnson composed . He wrote forty - eight pages of the printed copy in the course of a day , or night , for it is not very clear which . His biographer who records this , enters at the same THE LIFE OF JOHNSON . 555.
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Samuel Johnson. His biographer who records this , enters at the same time into a long discussion in . tended to prove that Savage was not the son of the countess of Macclesfield ; but had this been possible , it would surely have been ...
Samuel Johnson. His biographer who records this , enters at the same time into a long discussion in . tended to prove that Savage was not the son of the countess of Macclesfield ; but had this been possible , it would surely have been ...
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... biographers , from which I suspect he took some hints . It is entitled The late Travels of S. Giacomo Baratti , an Italian Gentle man , into the remotest Countries of the Abyssins , or of Ethiopia Interior . 12mo . Lond . 1670 . Among ...
... biographers , from which I suspect he took some hints . It is entitled The late Travels of S. Giacomo Baratti , an Italian Gentle man , into the remotest Countries of the Abyssins , or of Ethiopia Interior . 12mo . Lond . 1670 . Among ...
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... biographer . His death formed a very remarkable era in the literary world . For a consider- able time , the periodical journals , as well as general conversation , were eagerly occupied on an event which was the subject of universal ...
... biographer . His death formed a very remarkable era in the literary world . For a consider- able time , the periodical journals , as well as general conversation , were eagerly occupied on an event which was the subject of universal ...
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