The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... number to produce more than twenty pounds a week , and therefore stated at one and twenty pounds , or three pounds ten fhillings a day : this , at a half- penny a paper , will give fixteen hundred and eighty for the daily number . This ...
... number to produce more than twenty pounds a week , and therefore stated at one and twenty pounds , or three pounds ten fhillings a day : this , at a half- penny a paper , will give fixteen hundred and eighty for the daily number . This ...
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... numbers , which were afterwards collected into an eighth volume , perhaps more valuable than any one of those that went before it : Addison produced more than a fourth part , and the other con- tributors are by no means unworthy of ...
... numbers , which were afterwards collected into an eighth volume , perhaps more valuable than any one of those that went before it : Addison produced more than a fourth part , and the other con- tributors are by no means unworthy of ...
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... number of peers fhould be fixed , and the king restrained from any new creation of nobility , unless when an old family should be extinct . To this the lords would naturally agree ; and the king , who was yet little acquainted with his ...
... number of peers fhould be fixed , and the king restrained from any new creation of nobility , unless when an old family should be extinct . To this the lords would naturally agree ; and the king , who was yet little acquainted with his ...
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... number the instability of friendship . Of this difpute I have little knowledge but from the Biographia Britannica . The Old Whig is not inserted in Addison's works , nor is it mentioned by Tickell in his Life ; why it was omitted the ...
... number the instability of friendship . Of this difpute I have little knowledge but from the Biographia Britannica . The Old Whig is not inserted in Addison's works , nor is it mentioned by Tickell in his Life ; why it was omitted the ...
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... numbers , accuracy of thought , nor elegance of diction : it has either been written with great care , or , what cannot be imagined of fo long a work , with fuch felicity as made care lefs necessary . Its two constituent parts are ...
... numbers , accuracy of thought , nor elegance of diction : it has either been written with great care , or , what cannot be imagined of fo long a work , with fuch felicity as made care lefs necessary . Its two constituent parts are ...
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