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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... writer was born on the 18th of September 1709 , at Litchfield in Staffordshire , where his father Michael Johnson , a native of Derby- shire , of obscure extraction , was at that time a bookseller and stationer . His mother , Sarah Ford ...
... writer was born on the 18th of September 1709 , at Litchfield in Staffordshire , where his father Michael Johnson , a native of Derby- shire , of obscure extraction , was at that time a bookseller and stationer . His mother , Sarah Ford ...
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... writing the speeches as soon as he found they were thought genuine . The value of his contributions to this Magazine must ... write for it . Cave had a contriving head , but with too much of literary quackery . Johnson , by recommending ...
... writing the speeches as soon as he found they were thought genuine . The value of his contributions to this Magazine must ... write for it . Cave had a contriving head , but with too much of literary quackery . Johnson , by recommending ...
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... writing in which our author was not eminently successful . Some notice has already been taken of Gustavus Vasa in the life of Brooke . The Marmor Norfolciense was a severe attack on the Walpole admini❤ stration and on the reigning ...
... writing in which our author was not eminently successful . Some notice has already been taken of Gustavus Vasa in the life of Brooke . The Marmor Norfolciense was a severe attack on the Walpole admini❤ stration and on the reigning ...
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... writing in the Magazine because he would not join in the sup- port of government during the rebellion in Scotland ; but there are abundant proofs in Mr. Boswell's Life , that his sentiments were favourable to that attempt . As to his ...
... writing in the Magazine because he would not join in the sup- port of government during the rebellion in Scotland ; but there are abundant proofs in Mr. Boswell's Life , that his sentiments were favourable to that attempt . As to his ...
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... write a preface and postscript to his work , now dictated a letter ad- dressed to Dr. Douglas , acknowledging his fraud in terms of contrition , which Lauder subscribed . The candour of Johnson on this occasion was as readily ac ...
... write a preface and postscript to his work , now dictated a letter ad- dressed to Dr. Douglas , acknowledging his fraud in terms of contrition , which Lauder subscribed . The candour of Johnson on this occasion was as readily ac ...
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