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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... published in 1793 , renders some account of his life necessary in this place . I am aware that the following is short and may not be thought satisfactory , for what can be satisfactory to those who have read Mr. Boswell's very ...
... published in 1793 , renders some account of his life necessary in this place . I am aware that the following is short and may not be thought satisfactory , for what can be satisfactory to those who have read Mr. Boswell's very ...
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... published in 1735 by Bettes worth and Hitch in Paternoster Row , London . For this , his first literary performance , he received the small sum of five guineas . In the translation there is little that marks the hand of John- son , but ...
... published in 1735 by Bettes worth and Hitch in Paternoster Row , London . For this , his first literary performance , he received the small sum of five guineas . In the translation there is little that marks the hand of John- son , but ...
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... published , as now , the morning after the day of meeting , and the only safe mode of conveying the substance of them to the public was by adopting a historical form at more distant periods . At first , Johnson merely revised the ...
... published , as now , the morning after the day of meeting , and the only safe mode of conveying the substance of them to the public was by adopting a historical form at more distant periods . At first , Johnson merely revised the ...
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... published in May 1738 , and on the same morning with Pope's Satire of Seventeen Hundred and Thirty Eight . Johnson's was so cagerly bought up , that a second edition became necessary in less than a week . Pope behaved on this occasion ...
... published in May 1738 , and on the same morning with Pope's Satire of Seventeen Hundred and Thirty Eight . Johnson's was so cagerly bought up , that a second edition became necessary in less than a week . Pope behaved on this occasion ...
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... published his second imitation of Juvenal , under the title of the Vanity of Human Wishes , for which , with all the fame he had now acquired , he received only fifteen guineas . In his London , we have the manners of common life ; in ...
... published his second imitation of Juvenal , under the title of the Vanity of Human Wishes , for which , with all the fame he had now acquired , he received only fifteen guineas . In his London , we have the manners of common life ; in ...
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