The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, JohnsonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 |
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... truth a composition of great pathos and sublimity . The Hilliad is professedly an imitation of the Dunciad , to which , however , it is greatly superior in design , and generally in execution . Hill was a more fair object of ridicule ...
... truth a composition of great pathos and sublimity . The Hilliad is professedly an imitation of the Dunciad , to which , however , it is greatly superior in design , and generally in execution . Hill was a more fair object of ridicule ...
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... truth . And you , his kindred throng , forbear Marble memorials to prepare , And sculptur'd in your breasts his busto wear . ' Twas thus when Israel's legislator dy'd , No fragile mortal honours were supply'd , But even a grave denied ...
... truth . And you , his kindred throng , forbear Marble memorials to prepare , And sculptur'd in your breasts his busto wear . ' Twas thus when Israel's legislator dy'd , No fragile mortal honours were supply'd , But even a grave denied ...
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... truth , Whose snow - white conscience no foul crime has died From youth to manhood , infancy to youth , Like David , who have still rever'd thy word The sovereign of myself and servant of the Lord ! " The judge Almighty heard his ...
... truth , Whose snow - white conscience no foul crime has died From youth to manhood , infancy to youth , Like David , who have still rever'd thy word The sovereign of myself and servant of the Lord ! " The judge Almighty heard his ...
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... truth , First from the mortar dragg'd th ' adventrous youth , [ men , And made him , ' mongst the scribbling sons of Change peace for war , the pestle for the pen ? NOTES VARIORUM , and Katy , but from these venerable authorities ...
... truth , First from the mortar dragg'd th ' adventrous youth , [ men , And made him , ' mongst the scribbling sons of Change peace for war , the pestle for the pen ? NOTES VARIORUM , and Katy , but from these venerable authorities ...
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... truth is , he never wrote a syllable of this book , though he transcribed part of it , and showed it to a bookseller , in order to procure a higher price for his productions . QUINBUS FLESTRIN . While his black self , Florinda ever near ...
... truth is , he never wrote a syllable of this book , though he transcribed part of it , and showed it to a bookseller , in order to procure a higher price for his productions . QUINBUS FLESTRIN . While his black self , Florinda ever near ...
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