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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... perhaps refresh the memory , although it can add no- thing to the vast fund of information already before the public . This highly distinguished writer was born on the 18th of September 1709 , at Litchfield in Staffordshire , where his ...
... perhaps refresh the memory , although it can add no- thing to the vast fund of information already before the public . This highly distinguished writer was born on the 18th of September 1709 , at Litchfield in Staffordshire , where his ...
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... perhaps was ever more sensible of his failings , or avowed them with more candour , nor , indeed , would many of them have been known , if he had not exhibited them as warnings . His memory was uncommonly tenacious , and to his last ...
... perhaps was ever more sensible of his failings , or avowed them with more candour , nor , indeed , would many of them have been known , if he had not exhibited them as warnings . His memory was uncommonly tenacious , and to his last ...
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... perhaps not much against his inclination . No man knew better than Johnson what ought to be taught , but the business of edu- cation was confessedly repugnant to his habits and his temper . Daring this short residence at Edial , he ...
... perhaps not much against his inclination . No man knew better than Johnson what ought to be taught , but the business of edu- cation was confessedly repugnant to his habits and his temper . Daring this short residence at Edial , he ...
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... perhaps too rash to con clude that he declined writing in the Magazine because he would not join in the sup- port of government during the rebellion in Scotland ; but there are abundant proofs in Mr. Boswell's Life , that his sentiments ...
... perhaps too rash to con clude that he declined writing in the Magazine because he would not join in the sup- port of government during the rebellion in Scotland ; but there are abundant proofs in Mr. Boswell's Life , that his sentiments ...
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... perhaps that they were not to be envied . In 1755 , the degree of master of arts was conferred upon him by the univer- sity of Oxford , after which ( in May ) his Dictionary was published in two large volumes folio . Of a work so well ...
... perhaps that they were not to be envied . In 1755 , the degree of master of arts was conferred upon him by the univer- sity of Oxford , after which ( in May ) his Dictionary was published in two large volumes folio . Of a work so well ...
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