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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... critics would be directed , either against redundancy , or defect , and it is as likely that I shall be blamed for admitting too many , as for admitting too few , into a work professing to be a BODY OF THE STANDARD ENGLISH POETS . It ...
... critics would be directed , either against redundancy , or defect , and it is as likely that I shall be blamed for admitting too many , as for admitting too few , into a work professing to be a BODY OF THE STANDARD ENGLISH POETS . It ...
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... criticism , and all the partialities of individual taste , an editor must pause before he venture on a decision from which the appeals will be numerous and obstinately contested . On the other hand , he will not find much more security ...
... criticism , and all the partialities of individual taste , an editor must pause before he venture on a decision from which the appeals will be numerous and obstinately contested . On the other hand , he will not find much more security ...
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... criticism to give them that degree of favour with the public which they once enjoyed . For these reasons , in selecting from this class , it was the Editor's object to give such a series as might tend , not only to revive genuine and ...
... criticism to give them that degree of favour with the public which they once enjoyed . For these reasons , in selecting from this class , it was the Editor's object to give such a series as might tend , not only to revive genuine and ...
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... critics , as well as to the personal kindness of some of them , which it was my intention to have ac- knowledged more particularly had I not been afraid of impli- cating them in what may be found objectionable . Yet something must be ...
... critics , as well as to the personal kindness of some of them , which it was my intention to have ac- knowledged more particularly had I not been afraid of impli- cating them in what may be found objectionable . Yet something must be ...
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... critics . The chief faults attributed to him , are the mixture of French in all his works , and his ignorance of the laws of versification . A formal discussion of these points is not intended in the present sketch ; but some notice of ...
... critics . The chief faults attributed to him , are the mixture of French in all his works , and his ignorance of the laws of versification . A formal discussion of these points is not intended in the present sketch ; but some notice of ...
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