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 404
... honour , the shield - bearer being always next the king's person , and generally , upon signal victories , rewarded with military honours . But here again his biographers have mistaken the meaning of the courtly titles of those days ...
... honour , the shield - bearer being always next the king's person , and generally , upon signal victories , rewarded with military honours . But here again his biographers have mistaken the meaning of the courtly titles of those days ...
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... honour ( domicellae ) lately in the ser- vice of queen Philippa ; that the name of Philippa Rouet does not occur in the list of these maids of honour , but that Chaucer's wife may possibly have been Philippa Pykard ; that ...
... honour ( domicellae ) lately in the ser- vice of queen Philippa ; that the name of Philippa Rouet does not occur in the list of these maids of honour , but that Chaucer's wife may possibly have been Philippa Pykard ; that ...
Page 412
... honour of an inventor . They are written in the heroic metre , and there is no evidence of any English poet having used it before him . He is not indeed to be considered as the inventor in the most ex- tensive sense , as the heroic ...
... honour of an inventor . They are written in the heroic metre , and there is no evidence of any English poet having used it before him . He is not indeed to be considered as the inventor in the most ex- tensive sense , as the heroic ...
Page 417
... honour , as fit to be coupled with that of Chaucer , to whom some have supposed he was prior in his attempt to meliorate our poetry , and others have asserted that he was the early guide and encourager of Chaucer's studies . Yet there ...
... honour , as fit to be coupled with that of Chaucer , to whom some have supposed he was prior in his attempt to meliorate our poetry , and others have asserted that he was the early guide and encourager of Chaucer's studies . Yet there ...
Page 421
... honour , poets became ambitious of being thought scholars and sacrificed their native powers of invention to the ostentation of displaying an extensive course of reading , and to the pride of profound erudition . On this account , the ...
... honour , poets became ambitious of being thought scholars and sacrificed their native powers of invention to the ostentation of displaying an extensive course of reading , and to the pride of profound erudition . On this account , the ...
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