The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON ; J. NICHOLS AND SON ; R. BALDWIN ; F. AND C. RIVINGTON ; W. OTRIDGE AND SON ; LEIGH AND SOTHEBY ; R. FAULDER AND SON : G. NICHOL AND SON ; T. PAYNE ; G. ROBINSON ; WILKIE AND ROBINSON ; C. DAVIES ; T. EGERTON ...
... PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON ; J. NICHOLS AND SON ; R. BALDWIN ; F. AND C. RIVINGTON ; W. OTRIDGE AND SON ; LEIGH AND SOTHEBY ; R. FAULDER AND SON : G. NICHOL AND SON ; T. PAYNE ; G. ROBINSON ; WILKIE AND ROBINSON ; C. DAVIES ; T. EGERTON ...
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... printed separately in the Year 1742 ... 355 V. Advertisement to the complete Edition of 1743 353 354 ib . VI . Advertisement , printed in the Journals , 1730 ........ ib . ib . 357 509 A Letter to the Publisher , occasioned by the first ...
... printed separately in the Year 1742 ... 355 V. Advertisement to the complete Edition of 1743 353 354 ib . VI . Advertisement , printed in the Journals , 1730 ........ ib . ib . 357 509 A Letter to the Publisher , occasioned by the first ...
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... printed books ; a species of penmanship in which he retained great ex- cellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight he was placed in Hampshire , under Taverner , ' In Lombard ...
... printed books ; a species of penmanship in which he retained great ex- cellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight he was placed in Hampshire , under Taverner , ' In Lombard ...
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... printed . He sometimes imitated the English 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 ...
... printed . He sometimes imitated the English 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 ...
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... printed ( 1709 ) in Tonson's Miscellany , in a volume which began with the Pastorals of Philips , and ended with those of Pope . The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension ...
... printed ( 1709 ) in Tonson's Miscellany , in a volume which began with the Pastorals of Philips , and ended with those of Pope . The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension ...
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