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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... received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He was , however , entered a commoner of Pembroke College on the 31st October 1728 . His tutor was Mr. Jordan , a fellow of Pembroke , a man whom Johnson men- tioned with respect ...
... received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . He was , however , entered a commoner of Pembroke College on the 31st October 1728 . His tutor was Mr. Jordan , a fellow of Pembroke , a man whom Johnson men- tioned with respect ...
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... received the small sum of five guineas . In the translation there is little that marks the hand of John- son , but in the preface and dedication are a few passages in the same energetic and manly style which he may be said to have ...
... received the small sum of five guineas . In the translation there is little that marks the hand of John- son , but in the preface and dedication are a few passages in the same energetic and manly style which he may be said to have ...
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... received forty - nine pounds , but another translation being announced about the same period ( 1738 ) by a rival whose name was also Samuel Johnson , librarian of St. Martins in the Fields , our author desisted , and the other design ...
... received forty - nine pounds , but another translation being announced about the same period ( 1738 ) by a rival whose name was also Samuel Johnson , librarian of St. Martins in the Fields , our author desisted , and the other design ...
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... received an huudred pounds per annum from Cave . In the year 1738 , he made his name at once known and highly respected among the eminent men of his time , by the publication of London , a piece in imitation of the third satire of ...
... received an huudred pounds per annum from Cave . In the year 1738 , he made his name at once known and highly respected among the eminent men of his time , by the publication of London , a piece in imitation of the third satire of ...
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... received the whole of the money stipulated for in his agreement with the proprietors . In what time it might have been com- pleted , had he , to use his own phrase , " set doggedly about it , " it is useless to conjecture , and it would ...
... received the whole of the money stipulated for in his agreement with the proprietors . In what time it might have been com- pleted , had he , to use his own phrase , " set doggedly about it , " it is useless to conjecture , and it would ...
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