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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 364
by Samuel Johnson - 1783
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prefaces, biographical and critical, to the works of the english poets.

samuel johnson - 1781 - 258 pages
...others by Sir Robert Waipole, whofe fpeech was publifhed. The lords might think their dignity diminimed by improper advancements, .and particularly by the...to produce a majority of Tories in the laft reign ; art aft of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by no means to be compared with that...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 254 pages
...others by Sir Robert Waipole, whofe fpeech was publifhed. The lords might think their dignity diminifhed by improper advancements, and particularly by the introduction of twelve new peers atjance, to produce a -£- zi mamajority of Tories in the laft reign ; an: act of authority violent...
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The Town Talk: The Fish Pool, the Plebeian, the Old Whig, the Spinster, &c

Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1789 - 466 pages
...by Sir Robert Walpole, whofe fpeech was publiftjed. The lords might think their dignity diminilhed by improper advancements, and particularly by the...means to be compared with that contempt of national national right, with which fome time afterwards, by the infligation of Whiggifm, the commons, chofen...
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The Town Talk: The Fish Pool, the Plebeian, the Old Whig, the Spinster, &c

Sir Richard Steele - English essays - 1789 - 492 pages
...might think their dignity diminifhed by improper advancements, and particularly by the introduftion of twelve new peers at once, to produce a majority of Tories in the lafl reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by no means to be compared...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...speech was published. The lords might think their dignity diminished by improper advancements, ind particularly by the introduction of twelve new peers at once, to produce > majority of Tories in the last reign ; an act of authority violent enough, Jrt certainly legal, and...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pages
...by Sir Rpbert Walpole, whole fpeech \vas publifhed. The lords might think their dignity dimim'fhed by improper advancements, and particularly by the...authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by, BO means to be compared with that contempt of national right with which, fome time afterwards, by the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...by Sir Robert Walpole, whofe fpeech was publifhed. The lords might think their dignity dirninifhed by improper advancements, and particularly by the...produce a majority of Tories in the laft reign ; an adt of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by no means tq be compared w.ith that cpntempt...
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The Works, Volume 16

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 318 pages
...emphasis, by saying, " That the sudd™ introduction of twelve new peers at once by Queen Anne, was an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly...compared with that contempt of national right, with which sometime afterwards, by the instigation cf whiggism, the commons, chosen by the people for three years,...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 16

British essayists - 1802 - 380 pages
...others by Sir Robert Walpole, whose speech was published. The lords might think their dignity diminished by improper advancements, and particularly by the...peers at once, to produce a majority of Tories in the last reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by no means to be compared...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...others by Sir Robert Walpolc, whose speech was published. The lords might think their dignity diminished by improper advancements, and particularly by the...peers at once, to produce a majority of Tories in the last reign ; an act of authority violent enough, yet certainly legal, and by no means to be compared...
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