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 392
... hand , he will not find much more security in popularity , which is a criterion of uncertain duration , sometimes depending on circumstances very remote from taste or judgment , and , unless in some few happy instances , a mere fashion ...
... hand , he will not find much more security in popularity , which is a criterion of uncertain duration , sometimes depending on circumstances very remote from taste or judgment , and , unless in some few happy instances , a mere fashion ...
Page 394
... hands they have fallen , to guard them with the most scrupulous anxiety . Even where , as in the present instance , the spirit of the proprietors would not have suffered the high price to keep back what was necessary , it was sometimes ...
... hands they have fallen , to guard them with the most scrupulous anxiety . Even where , as in the present instance , the spirit of the proprietors would not have suffered the high price to keep back what was necessary , it was sometimes ...
Page 402
... hand , that he was of noble origin ; on the other , that he descended from persons in trade . Even the meaning of his name in French , chaucier , a shoemaker , has been brought in evidence of a low origin , while the mention of the name ...
... hand , that he was of noble origin ; on the other , that he descended from persons in trade . Even the meaning of his name in French , chaucier , a shoemaker , has been brought in evidence of a low origin , while the mention of the name ...
Page 404
... hand his rolls touching the said office in his own proper person , and not by his substitute . " The inferences , how- ever , which Mr. Tyrwhitt draws from this fact , viz . " that his majesty was either totally insensible of our ...
... hand his rolls touching the said office in his own proper person , and not by his substitute . " The inferences , how- ever , which Mr. Tyrwhitt draws from this fact , viz . " that his majesty was either totally insensible of our ...
Page 408
... hands of Thomas Chaucer for many years . During his retirement in 1391 , he wrote his learned treatise on the Astrolabe , for the use of his son Lewis , who was then ten years old , and this is the only circumstance respecting his ...
... hands of Thomas Chaucer for many years . During his retirement in 1391 , he wrote his learned treatise on the Astrolabe , for the use of his son Lewis , who was then ten years old , and this is the only circumstance respecting his ...
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