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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... - Page 59
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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preface biograpical and critical, to the works of the english poets

samuel johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...gratified with this character'"of .our common -.friend : but what are the hopes of man ! ll am difappoinipd by that flroke of ; death, which ..has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverifhed the pubjick .ftijck of h'armlefs pleafure. .:,/s,..'. sTTL- (UK .irc.i. — ..^Tn In the Library, at.O>:ford...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...will be long remembered ; and with David Garridk, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death чиЫсЬ has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and imfaverifleä líe publick flock...
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Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick: Interspersed with Characters ..., Volume 2

Thomas Davies - Actors - 1780 - 458 pages
...will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend : but what are the hopes of man! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverifhed the public ftock. of harmlefs...
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Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 476 pages
...will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death, S 2 which which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverimed the publick ftock...
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Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq: Interspersed with ..., Volume 2

Thomas Davies - Actors - 1781 - 464 pages
...will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend : but, what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverifhed the public ftock of harmlels...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Dryden. Smith. Duke. King ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our rommon friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death, S 3, which which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverifhcd the publick...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 456 pages
...life ; with Dr. James, whofe fkill in phyfick will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom J hoped to have gratified with this charadter of our...what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death, which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverimed the publick ftock of harmlefs...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 484 pages
...this character of our common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death, which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations,...impoverifhed the publick ftock of harmlefs pleafure. In the Library at Oxford is the following ludicrous Analyfis of Pocockius : Ex AUTOGRAPHO. [Sent by...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

John Hawkins - 1787 - 652 pages
...be long remembered ; and with * David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with f this character of our common friend : but what are ' the hopes of man! I am difappointed by that ftroke * of death, which has edipfed the gaiety of nations, ' and impoverifhed the public ftock of...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...will be long remembered; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am difappointed by that ftroke of death, which has eclipfed the gaiety of nations, and impoverifhed the publick ftock of harmlefs...
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