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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... reasons were is not known . He was now removed to the school of Stourbridge in Worcestershire , where he remained about a year , with very little acquisition of knowledge but here , as well as at Lichfield , he gave several proofs of ...
... reasons were is not known . He was now removed to the school of Stourbridge in Worcestershire , where he remained about a year , with very little acquisition of knowledge but here , as well as at Lichfield , he gave several proofs of ...
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... reason we are not told , this application too was unsuccessful . Mr. Murphy says , " There is reason to think that Swift declined to meddle in the business : and to that circumstance Johnson's known dislike of Swift has often been ...
... reason we are not told , this application too was unsuccessful . Mr. Murphy says , " There is reason to think that Swift declined to meddle in the business : and to that circumstance Johnson's known dislike of Swift has often been ...
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... reason , Johnson's regular contributions appear no more in the Gentleman's Magazine . But he wrote a very elegant life of Cave , and was afterwards an occasional contributor . This , it would appear , was one of his worst years as to ...
... reason , Johnson's regular contributions appear no more in the Gentleman's Magazine . But he wrote a very elegant life of Cave , and was afterwards an occasional contributor . This , it would appear , was one of his worst years as to ...
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... reason to depart from the generally re ceived opinions as to the rank Johnson holds among men of genius and virtue , a rank which those who yet capriciously dwell on his failings , will find it difficult to disturb . His errours have ...
... reason to depart from the generally re ceived opinions as to the rank Johnson holds among men of genius and virtue , a rank which those who yet capriciously dwell on his failings , will find it difficult to disturb . His errours have ...
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... reason to fancy , and his two imitations of Juvenal are not only equal to any thing that writer has produced , in the happy delineation of living manners , and in elegance of versification , but are perhaps su- perior to any ...
... reason to fancy , and his two imitations of Juvenal are not only equal to any thing that writer has produced , in the happy delineation of living manners , and in elegance of versification , but are perhaps su- perior to any ...
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