The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... Poem on Death Courage in Love .... 37 38 To Mr. Pope , on his Works , 1726 ........... Part of the Tenth Book of the Iliads of Homer . In the Style of Milton ib . The Complaint . Cælia to Damon 39 24 A Pastoral , to a young Lady , upon ...
... Poem on Death Courage in Love .... 37 38 To Mr. Pope , on his Works , 1726 ........... Part of the Tenth Book of the Iliads of Homer . In the Style of Milton ib . The Complaint . Cælia to Damon 39 24 A Pastoral , to a young Lady , upon ...
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Alexander Chalmers. POEMS OF THOMSON . THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE , AN ALLEGORICAL POEM . Canto I. ERRATA IN POPE'S POEMS . Page 159 , line 126 , of the poem , for from , read form . 217 , line 490 , for weaker , read stronger 235 , line 1 ...
Alexander Chalmers. POEMS OF THOMSON . THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE , AN ALLEGORICAL POEM . Canto I. ERRATA IN POPE'S POEMS . Page 159 , line 126 , of the poem , for from , read form . 217 , line 490 , for weaker , read stronger 235 , line 1 ...
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... POEM ON THE SEAT OF WAR IN FLANDERS , CHIEFLY WITH RELATION TO THE SIEGES : - WITH THE PRAISE OF PEACE AND RETIREMENT . WRITTEN IN 1710 . Secessus mei non desidiæ nomen , sed tranquillita- tis accipiant . Plin . HAPPY , thou Flandria ...
... POEM ON THE SEAT OF WAR IN FLANDERS , CHIEFLY WITH RELATION TO THE SIEGES : - WITH THE PRAISE OF PEACE AND RETIREMENT . WRITTEN IN 1710 . Secessus mei non desidiæ nomen , sed tranquillita- tis accipiant . Plin . HAPPY , thou Flandria ...
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... poem , as a monument of the long and sincere friendship I have borne you : I am sensible you are too good a judge of poetry to approve it ; however , it will be a testimony of my respect : You conferred obliga- tions upon me very early ...
... poem , as a monument of the long and sincere friendship I have borne you : I am sensible you are too good a judge of poetry to approve it ; however , it will be a testimony of my respect : You conferred obliga- tions upon me very early ...
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... poets , and professed to have written at four- teen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his versification , and the smoothness of his numbers surpassed his original : but this is a small part of his ...
... poets , and professed to have written at four- teen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . He had now formed his versification , and the smoothness of his numbers surpassed his original : but this is a small part of his ...
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