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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... Conversation . Our author was the eldest of two sons . Nathaniel , the youngest , died in 1737 , in his twenty - fifth year . The father was a man of robust body and active mind , yet occasionally depressed by melancholy , which Samuel ...
... Conversation . Our author was the eldest of two sons . Nathaniel , the youngest , died in 1737 , in his twenty - fifth year . The father was a man of robust body and active mind , yet occasionally depressed by melancholy , which Samuel ...
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... conversations on the subject , he persisted in pleading for a liberal use of the rod . At this school his superiority was soon acknowledged by his companions , who could not refuse submission to the ascendancy which he acquired . His ...
... conversations on the subject , he persisted in pleading for a liberal use of the rod . At this school his superiority was soon acknowledged by his companions , who could not refuse submission to the ascendancy which he acquired . His ...
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... conversation was interesting . She was left in poverty by her father , and had the additional affliction of being totally blind . To relieve his melancholy reflections , Johnson took her home to his house in Gough - Square , procured ...
... conversation was interesting . She was left in poverty by her father , and had the additional affliction of being totally blind . To relieve his melancholy reflections , Johnson took her home to his house in Gough - Square , procured ...
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... conversation . In 1767 , he had the honour to be admitted to a personal interview with his ma jesty in the library of the queen's palace . Of the conversation which passed , Mr. Boswell has given a very interesting and authentic account ...
... conversation . In 1767 , he had the honour to be admitted to a personal interview with his ma jesty in the library of the queen's palace . Of the conversation which passed , Mr. Boswell has given a very interesting and authentic account ...
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... conversation , he did not hesitate to treat the whole as an imposture . This excited the resentment of Macpherson , the editor , to such a degree that he wrote a threatening letter to Johnson , who answered it in a com- position which ...
... conversation , he did not hesitate to treat the whole as an imposture . This excited the resentment of Macpherson , the editor , to such a degree that he wrote a threatening letter to Johnson , who answered it in a com- position which ...
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