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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... Court of Love , which was composed when he was about eighteen , he speaks of himself under the name of Philogenet of Cambridge , clerk . Mr. Tyrwhitt , while he does not think this a decisive proof that he was really educated at ...
... Court of Love , which was composed when he was about eighteen , he speaks of himself under the name of Philogenet of Cambridge , clerk . Mr. Tyrwhitt , while he does not think this a decisive proof that he was really educated at ...
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... court of a monarch , who was magnificent in his establishment , and munificent in his patronage of learning and gallantry . At what period of life he obtained a situation here is uncer- tain . The writer of the life prefixed to Urry's ...
... court of a monarch , who was magnificent in his establishment , and munificent in his patronage of learning and gallantry . At what period of life he obtained a situation here is uncer- tain . The writer of the life prefixed to Urry's ...
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... court was at Woodstock , resided at a square stone house near the park gate , which long retained the name of Chaucer's house ; and many of the rural descriptions in his works have been traced to Woodstock park , the favourite scene of ...
... court was at Woodstock , resided at a square stone house near the park gate , which long retained the name of Chaucer's house ; and many of the rural descriptions in his works have been traced to Woodstock park , the favourite scene of ...
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... court of claims was established to settle the demands of those who pretended to have a right to assist at the ceremony . Among these Chaucer claimed , in right of his ward , who was possessed of the manor of Billington in Kent ; and ...
... court of claims was established to settle the demands of those who pretended to have a right to assist at the ceremony . Among these Chaucer claimed , in right of his ward , who was possessed of the manor of Billington in Kent ; and ...
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... court and its in- trigues , and retire in pursuit of that happiness which his years and habits of reflection demanded . With this view , it was necessary to dispose of those pensions which had been bestowed upon him in the former reign ...
... court and its in- trigues , and retire in pursuit of that happiness which his years and habits of reflection demanded . With this view , it was necessary to dispose of those pensions which had been bestowed upon him in the former reign ...
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