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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... taste of the age , and the value of its patron . age , but they are too obvious to be obtruded on any reader of feeling or judg , ment , and to others they would be unintelligible . In what manner Johnson was employed for some time ...
... taste of the age , and the value of its patron . age , but they are too obvious to be obtruded on any reader of feeling or judg , ment , and to others they would be unintelligible . In what manner Johnson was employed for some time ...
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... taste or candour , on the merits of his author , and of other eminent persons , whom , as a critic humorously said " he brought to be tried at the Middlesex quarter ges sions . " In collecting the works , be inserted some which no man ...
... taste or candour , on the merits of his author , and of other eminent persons , whom , as a critic humorously said " he brought to be tried at the Middlesex quarter ges sions . " In collecting the works , be inserted some which no man ...
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... taste , appears to have been warmly attached to the interests of our young poet , and at a time when there were few regular vehicles of praise or criticism , took every opportunity of encouraging his efforts , and apprising the nation ...
... taste , appears to have been warmly attached to the interests of our young poet , and at a time when there were few regular vehicles of praise or criticism , took every opportunity of encouraging his efforts , and apprising the nation ...
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... taste . Lord Lyttelton , in the periodical paper called Common Sense , praised it in the warmest terms , not only for its poetical beauties , but its political tendency , " the whole plan and purpose of it being to show the superiority ...
... taste . Lord Lyttelton , in the periodical paper called Common Sense , praised it in the warmest terms , not only for its poetical beauties , but its political tendency , " the whole plan and purpose of it being to show the superiority ...
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... taste must explain the rest . We have already mentioned , that on its first publication it was read and praised with the utmost avidity . Besides the encomiums it drew from Lyttelton and Pemberton , its fame reached Ireland , where it ...
... taste must explain the rest . We have already mentioned , that on its first publication it was read and praised with the utmost avidity . Besides the encomiums it drew from Lyttelton and Pemberton , its fame reached Ireland , where it ...
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