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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... of the law , but in three or four years went on the stage , ob- tained the highest honours that dramatic fame could confer , with a fortune splendid beyond all precedent . The difference in the lot of 552 THE LIFE OF JOHNSON .
... of the law , but in three or four years went on the stage , ob- tained the highest honours that dramatic fame could confer , with a fortune splendid beyond all precedent . The difference in the lot of 552 THE LIFE OF JOHNSON .
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... 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 , which , it may here be mentioned ...
... 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 , which , it may here be mentioned ...
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... honours paid to his me- mory , it may suffice to say that they were more in number and quality than were ever paid to any man of literature . It was his singular fate that the age , which he contributed to improve , repaid him by a ...
... honours paid to his me- mory , it may suffice to say that they were more in number and quality than were ever paid to any man of literature . It was his singular fate that the age , which he contributed to improve , repaid him by a ...
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... honours . Of the poem in question , he thus speaks , in his preface : " I have presented my readers with a copy of verses on sir Isaac Newton , which I have just received from a young gentleman , whom I am proud to reckon among the ...
... honours . Of the poem in question , he thus speaks , in his preface : " I have presented my readers with a copy of verses on sir Isaac Newton , which I have just received from a young gentleman , whom I am proud to reckon among the ...
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... honour , and are so elegantly expressed in the speech he addressed to the livery , that no apology seems necessary for introducing it in this place : " Gentlemen , " AFTER the trouble which I have had so large a share in giving you , by ...
... honour , and are so elegantly expressed in the speech he addressed to the livery , that no apology seems necessary for introducing it in this place : " Gentlemen , " AFTER the trouble which I have had so large a share in giving you , by ...
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