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 |
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... biographers have endeavoured to supply the want of them . The editor of the Biographia Britannica has collected a very considerable body of evidence on the subject ; but a great part of it is of a very suspicious kind , and the whole ...
... biographers have endeavoured to supply the want of them . The editor of the Biographia Britannica has collected a very considerable body of evidence on the subject ; but a great part of it is of a very suspicious kind , and the whole ...
Page 402
... biographers have provided him with education both at Oxford and Cambridge , a circumstance which we know occurred in the history of other scholars of that period , and is not therefore improbable . But in his Court of Love , which was ...
... biographers have provided him with education both at Oxford and Cambridge , a circumstance which we know occurred in the history of other scholars of that period , and is not therefore improbable . But in his Court of Love , which was ...
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... biographers not under- standing the meaning of the titles given to our poet . Speght mentions a grant from king ... biographer in Urry's edition had raised him too high , by trans- lating the same words gentleman of the king's privy ...
... biographers not under- standing the meaning of the titles given to our poet . Speght mentions a grant from king ... biographer in Urry's edition had raised him too high , by trans- lating the same words gentleman of the king's privy ...
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... biographers have given some particulars of his life before the office just mentioned was conferred upon him . He is said to have been in constant attendance on his majesty , and when the court was at Woodstock , resided at a square ...
... biographers have given some particulars of his life before the office just mentioned was conferred upon him . He is said to have been in constant attendance on his majesty , and when the court was at Woodstock , resided at a square ...
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... biographers concur in the fact that he experienced ' The sums have been calculated to amount to £ 3500 , of our money . See Ellis , vol . i . p . 204 . a very serious reverse in his affairs , which in LIFE OF CHAUCER . vii.
... biographers concur in the fact that he experienced ' The sums have been calculated to amount to £ 3500 , of our money . See Ellis , vol . i . p . 204 . a very serious reverse in his affairs , which in LIFE OF CHAUCER . vii.
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