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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... letter , but it does not appear that any agreement was formed at this time . He soon , however , entered into a connection of a more tender kind , which ended in marriage . His wife , who was about twenty years older than him . self ...
... letter , but it does not appear that any agreement was formed at this time . He soon , however , entered into a connection of a more tender kind , which ended in marriage . His wife , who was about twenty years older than him . self ...
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Samuel Johnson. in the business is not improbable , for it appears by his letters of this date ( August 1738 ) that he was incapable of attending to any business : but Johnson's Life of Swift proves that his dislike had a more honourable ...
Samuel Johnson. in the business is not improbable , for it appears by his letters of this date ( August 1738 ) that he was incapable of attending to any business : but Johnson's Life of Swift proves that his dislike had a more honourable ...
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... letter ad- dressed to Dr. Douglas , acknowledging his fraud in terms of contrition , which Lauder subscribed . The candour of Johnson on this occasion was as readily ac . British Essayists , vol . xix . Preface to the Rambler . C ...
... letter ad- dressed to Dr. Douglas , acknowledging his fraud in terms of contrition , which Lauder subscribed . The candour of Johnson on this occasion was as readily ac . British Essayists , vol . xix . Preface to the Rambler . C ...
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... letters , and was not to be appeased by the artifice of these protracted compliments . He could not even brook that his lordship should for a moment suppose him reconciled by his flattery , but immediately wrote that celebrated letter ...
... letters , and was not to be appeased by the artifice of these protracted compliments . He could not even brook that his lordship should for a moment suppose him reconciled by his flattery , but immediately wrote that celebrated letter ...
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... letters on this subject , in Boswell's Life , vol . i . p , 315 , et seq . which are thus particularly referred to , as they are to be found only in the edition of 1807. C. motive ; for he wrote the whole of this elegant THE LIFE OF ...
... letters on this subject , in Boswell's Life , vol . i . p , 315 , et seq . which are thus particularly referred to , as they are to be found only in the edition of 1807. C. motive ; for he wrote the whole of this elegant THE LIFE OF ...
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