Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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... printed with the sanction of one of the first universities in the world , had not an unex- pected manuscript been happily discovered , would , with the help of factious credulity , have been brought into question by the two lowest of ...
... printed with the sanction of one of the first universities in the world , had not an unex- pected manuscript been happily discovered , would , with the help of factious credulity , have been brought into question by the two lowest of ...
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... printed it : and as no other person ought to prosecute that revenge from which the person who was injured desisted , I shall not preserve what Mr. Savage suppressed : of which the publication would indeed have been a punishment too ...
... printed it : and as no other person ought to prosecute that revenge from which the person who was injured desisted , I shall not preserve what Mr. Savage suppressed : of which the publication would indeed have been a punishment too ...
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... Printed for J. Roberts , in Warwick - Lane . MDCCXLIV . ' It reached a second edition in 1748 , a third in 1767 , and a fourth in 1769. A French translation was published in 1771 . Boswell's Johnson , i . 165 n . [ Very few alterations ...
... Printed for J. Roberts , in Warwick - Lane . MDCCXLIV . ' It reached a second edition in 1748 , a third in 1767 , and a fourth in 1769. A French translation was published in 1771 . Boswell's Johnson , i . 165 n . [ Very few alterations ...
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