The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt, ThomsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... write . I will therefore only beg the honour to subscribe myself , PULHAM IN NORFOLK , 1739 . my lord , your lordship's most obliged , and most obedient servant , WILLIAM BROOME 1 See Mr. Thomson's excellent poems . PREFACE . I AM very ...
... write . I will therefore only beg the honour to subscribe myself , PULHAM IN NORFOLK , 1739 . my lord , your lordship's most obliged , and most obedient servant , WILLIAM BROOME 1 See Mr. Thomson's excellent poems . PREFACE . I AM very ...
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... write ill , they are sure to be used with contempt ; if well , too often with envy . Some men , even while they improve them- selves with the sentiments of others , rail at their benefactors , and while they gather the fruit , tear the ...
... write ill , they are sure to be used with contempt ; if well , too often with envy . Some men , even while they improve them- selves with the sentiments of others , rail at their benefactors , and while they gather the fruit , tear the ...
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... write upon moral subjects . TO THOMAS MARRIOT , ES2 . I PRE - IX your name to the following 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 ...
... write upon moral subjects . TO THOMAS MARRIOT , ES2 . I PRE - IX your name to the following 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 ...
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... write , the transient Now is past , And Death more near , this sentence than the last ! As some weak isthmus seas from seas divides , Beat by rude waves , and sapp'd by rushing tides , Torn from its base , no more their fury bears , At ...
... write , the transient Now is past , And Death more near , this sentence than the last ! As some weak isthmus seas from seas divides , Beat by rude waves , and sapp'd by rushing tides , Torn from its base , no more their fury bears , At ...
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... write by imitating 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 ...
... write by imitating 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 ...
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