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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... verse , as a Christmas exercise . Pope is said to have expressed his high ap- probation of it , but critics in that language , among whom Pope could never be ranked , have not considered Johnson's Latin poems as the happiest of his com ...
... verse , as a Christmas exercise . Pope is said to have expressed his high ap- probation of it , but critics in that language , among whom Pope could never be ranked , have not considered Johnson's Latin poems as the happiest of his com ...
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... verses on sir Isaac Newton , which I have just received from a young gentleman , whom I am proud to reckon among the number of my dearest friends . If I had any apprehen- sion that this piece of poetry stood in need of an apology , I ...
... verses on sir Isaac Newton , which I have just received from a young gentleman , whom I am proud to reckon among the number of my dearest friends . If I had any apprehen- sion that this piece of poetry stood in need of an apology , I ...
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... verse , the harmony of the numbers , or the charms of the invention . " Upon the whole , I look upon this poem as one of those few of distinguished worth and excellence , which will be handed down with respect to all posterity , and ...
... verse , the harmony of the numbers , or the charms of the invention . " Upon the whole , I look upon this poem as one of those few of distinguished worth and excellence , which will be handed down with respect to all posterity , and ...
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... verse . " Besides this warm and rather extravagant encomium , Lyttelton addressed verses to our author ' , in which he inveighs with much asperity against the degeneracy of the times , but , not very consistently , compares England to ...
... verse . " Besides this warm and rather extravagant encomium , Lyttelton addressed verses to our author ' , in which he inveighs with much asperity against the degeneracy of the times , but , not very consistently , compares England to ...
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... verse , to run his verses into one another with different pauses . " He thought that iambic feet only should be used in heroic verse , without admitting any trochaic , a notion which is much to be regretted in a writer whose judgment ...
... verse , to run his verses into one another with different pauses . " He thought that iambic feet only should be used in heroic verse , without admitting any trochaic , a notion which is much to be regretted in a writer whose judgment ...
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