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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Page 396
... character . And I am sorry it should be necessary to add , that I have not thought it incumbent to represent every man whose works are here ad- mitted as a prodigy of genius or virtue . This practice , it is true , has been lately ...
... character . And I am sorry it should be necessary to add , that I have not thought it incumbent to represent every man whose works are here ad- mitted as a prodigy of genius or virtue . This practice , it is true , has been lately ...
Page 396
... character must ever be preferable to those unnatural sketches in which there is no discrimination , but all is purity and perfection , or in which the most degrading vices are either suppressed by fraud , or vindicated by sophistry . Of ...
... character must ever be preferable to those unnatural sketches in which there is no discrimination , but all is purity and perfection , or in which the most degrading vices are either suppressed by fraud , or vindicated by sophistry . Of ...
Page 402
... character , were more accurately known , they could throw no light on his merit as a poet and a scholar , with which alone we are now concerned . A formal life of Chaucer , as Mr. Tyrwhitt has observed , must now be a very meagre ...
... character , were more accurately known , they could throw no light on his merit as a poet and a scholar , with which alone we are now concerned . A formal life of Chaucer , as Mr. Tyrwhitt has observed , must now be a very meagre ...
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... character , which Mr. Ritson has urged with asperity , but which is obscurely discernible , is the alteration he made in this work on the accession of Henry IV . and his consequent disrespect for the memory of Richard , to whom he ...
... character , which Mr. Ritson has urged with asperity , but which is obscurely discernible , is the alteration he made in this work on the accession of Henry IV . and his consequent disrespect for the memory of Richard , to whom he ...
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... character of that statesman , then in the plenitude of his power . Whether such attacks were made in any small poems or ballads , or only in his poem of Why come ye not to Court ? is not certain ; but the latter does not appear to have ...
... character of that statesman , then in the plenitude of his power . Whether such attacks were made in any small poems or ballads , or only in his poem of Why come ye not to Court ? is not certain ; but the latter does not appear to have ...
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