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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... reader of feeling or judg , ment , and to others they would be unintelligible . In what 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 ...
... reader of feeling or judg , ment , and to others they would be unintelligible . In what 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 ...
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... readers by conjectures on the probable figure he would make in that assembly , and he owned frequently that he should not have been sɔrry to try . Why the interference of his friends was ineffectual , the minister only could tell , but ...
... readers by conjectures on the probable figure he would make in that assembly , and he owned frequently that he should not have been sɔrry to try . Why the interference of his friends was ineffectual , the minister only could tell , but ...
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... the knowledge of the public so intimately , that it would be impossible to advance any thing with which every reader is not already acquainted . The suffrages of the nation have been taken , and the THE LIFE OF JOHNSON . 567.
... the knowledge of the public so intimately , that it would be impossible to advance any thing with which every reader is not already acquainted . The suffrages of the nation have been taken , and the THE LIFE OF JOHNSON . 567.
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... reader . They are what have been published in his works , and no doubts , as far as the present writer knows , have ever been entertained of their authenticity . What he might have produced , if he had devoted himself to the Muses , it ...
... reader . They are what have been published in his works , and no doubts , as far as the present writer knows , have ever been entertained of their authenticity . What he might have produced , if he had devoted himself to the Muses , it ...
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... reader might know that the author is but sixteen years old , and was obliged to finish the composition in a very short space of time , but I shall only take the liberty to ob- serve , that the boldness of the digressions will be best ...
... reader might know that the author is but sixteen years old , and was obliged to finish the composition in a very short space of time , but I shall only take the liberty to ob- serve , that the boldness of the digressions will be best ...
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