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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... elegance , endeavoured to promote this plan , but it proved abortive . Three pupils only appeared , one of whom was David Garrick : with these he made a shift to keep the school open for about a year and a half , and was then obliged to ...
... elegance , endeavoured to promote this plan , but it proved abortive . Three pupils only appeared , one of whom was David Garrick : with these he made a shift to keep the school open for about a year and a half , and was then obliged to ...
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... elegance of its language . In 1750 , he commenced a work which raised his fame yet higher than it had ever yet reached , and will probably convey his name to the latest posterity . He appears to have entered on the Rambler without any ...
... elegance of its language . In 1750 , he commenced a work which raised his fame yet higher than it had ever yet reached , and will probably convey his name to the latest posterity . He appears to have entered on the Rambler without any ...
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... elegant of noble writers , praise was at this time valuable . But Johnson never departed from exacting the just respect due to a man of letters , and was not to be appeased by the artifice of these protracted compliments . He could not ...
... elegant of noble writers , praise was at this time valuable . But Johnson never departed from exacting the just respect due to a man of letters , and was not to be appeased by the artifice of these protracted compliments . He could not ...
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... elegant life of Cave , and was afterwards an occasional contributor . This , it would appear , was one of his worst years as to pecuniary matters . find him , in the month of March , arrested for the sum of five pounds eighteen shil ...
... elegant life of Cave , and was afterwards an occasional contributor . This , it would appear , was one of his worst years as to pecuniary matters . find him , in the month of March , arrested for the sum of five pounds eighteen shil ...
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Samuel Johnson. motive ; for he wrote the whole of this elegant and philosophical fiction during the evenings of one ... elegant society . Here an apartment was fitted up for him , which he occupied when he pleased , and he accompanied ...
Samuel Johnson. motive ; for he wrote the whole of this elegant and philosophical fiction during the evenings of one ... elegant society . Here an apartment was fitted up for him , which he occupied when he pleased , and he accompanied ...
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