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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... poetry of Prior , Hammond , Collins , Gray and a few others . The errours , indeed , which on any other subject might have passed for errours of judgment , were by the irascible tempers of his adversaries magnified into high treason ...
... poetry of Prior , Hammond , Collins , Gray and a few others . The errours , indeed , which on any other subject might have passed for errours of judgment , were by the irascible tempers of his adversaries magnified into high treason ...
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... poetry , and certainly has not improved it . A few of his translations are more happily executed , particularly the Dove of Anacreon . The poem on the death of his humble friend Levet is one of those pathetic appeals to the heart which ...
... poetry , and certainly has not improved it . A few of his translations are more happily executed , particularly the Dove of Anacreon . The poem on the death of his humble friend Levet is one of those pathetic appeals to the heart which ...
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... poetry stood in need of an apology , I should be desirous the reader might know that the author is but sixteen years old , and was obliged to finish the composition in a very short space of time , but I shall only take the liberty to ob ...
... poetry stood in need of an apology , I should be desirous the reader might know that the author is but sixteen years old , and was obliged to finish the composition in a very short space of time , but I shall only take the liberty to ob ...
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... poetry will be particularly pleased with in Leonidas . I must observe too , that even those who are not naturally fond of poetry , or any work of fancy , will find in this so much solidity of reason , such good sense , weight of thought ...
... poetry will be particularly pleased with in Leonidas . I must observe too , that even those who are not naturally fond of poetry , or any work of fancy , will find in this so much solidity of reason , such good sense , weight of thought ...
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... Poetry , especially epic , oc- casioned by the late Poem upon Leonidas , 12mo . 1738. In this , with many just remarks of a general kind , the author carries his opinion of Glover's production beyond all rea- sonable bounds . It came ...
... Poetry , especially epic , oc- casioned by the late Poem upon Leonidas , 12mo . 1738. In this , with many just remarks of a general kind , the author carries his opinion of Glover's production beyond all rea- sonable bounds . It came ...
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