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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... manner of reading , and occasionally formed resolutions of re- gular study , in which he seldom persisted . Among his companions he was looked up to as a young man of wit and spirit , singular and unequal in temper , impatient of ...
... manner of reading , and occasionally formed resolutions of re- gular study , in which he seldom persisted . Among his companions he was looked up to as a young man of wit and spirit , singular and unequal in temper , impatient of ...
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... manner Johnson was employed for some time after his arrival in Lon- don , is not known . He brought a small sum of money with him , and he hus- banded it with frugality , while he mixed in such society as was accessible to a friendless ...
... manner Johnson was employed for some time after his arrival in Lon- don , is not known . He brought a small sum of money with him , and he hus- banded it with frugality , while he mixed in such society as was accessible to a friendless ...
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... manners of common life ; in the Vanity of Human Wishes , he has given us more of his own mind , more of that train of sentiment , excited sometimes by poverty , and sometimes by disappointment , which always inclined him to view the ...
... manners of common life ; in the Vanity of Human Wishes , he has given us more of his own mind , more of that train of sentiment , excited sometimes by poverty , and sometimes by disappointment , which always inclined him to view the ...
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... manner , he forgot every thing in her distresses , and was indeed , in all his charities , which were numerous , the most remote that can be conceived from the hope of gratitude or reward . His house was filled by dependents , whose ...
... manner , he forgot every thing in her distresses , and was indeed , in all his charities , which were numerous , the most remote that can be conceived from the hope of gratitude or reward . His house was filled by dependents , whose ...
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... manners by no means prepossessing , whose person was forbidding , whose voice was rough , inharmonious and terrifying , whose temper was frequently harsh and overbearing ; that such a man should have forced his way into the society of a ...
... manners by no means prepossessing , whose person was forbidding , whose voice was rough , inharmonious and terrifying , whose temper was frequently harsh and overbearing ; that such a man should have forced his way into the society of a ...
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