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... letter to the Rev. James Hervey , have endeavoured to impress him with a sense of See Smollett's British Magazine , his situation . vol . v . p . 655 . P. 292. Since writing this life , I have disco - prospect . vered the following ...
... letter to the Rev. James Hervey , have endeavoured to impress him with a sense of See Smollett's British Magazine , his situation . vol . v . p . 655 . P. 292. Since writing this life , I have disco - prospect . vered the following ...
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... letter , the copiousness of the glossary , and the ornaments , & c . continued to be the only one consulted , until the publication of the Canterbury Tales by Mr. Tyrwhitt in 1775. This very acute critic was the first who endeavoured to ...
... letter , the copiousness of the glossary , and the ornaments , & c . continued to be the only one consulted , until the publication of the Canterbury Tales by Mr. Tyrwhitt in 1775. This very acute critic was the first who endeavoured to ...
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... letter to Henry VIII . styles him Britannicarum literarum decus et lumen , a character which must have either been inferred from common opinion , or derived from personal know- ledge . Whatever provocation he gave to the clergy , he was ...
... letter to Henry VIII . styles him Britannicarum literarum decus et lumen , a character which must have either been inferred from common opinion , or derived from personal know- ledge . Whatever provocation he gave to the clergy , he was ...
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... letters sent to him by king Henry VIII . recalling him to England . He left Italy therefore , where he had cultivated his poetical A friend at Oxford has suggested that he may have been born at Lambeth , or at a house near Bishopsgate ...
... letters sent to him by king Henry VIII . recalling him to England . He left Italy therefore , where he had cultivated his poetical A friend at Oxford has suggested that he may have been born at Lambeth , or at a house near Bishopsgate ...
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... letter of his to the king , dated Jan. 8 , 1545-6 , that this advantage cost the enemy a great number of men . But the king was so highly displeased with this ill success , that from that time he contracted a pre- judice against the ...
... letter of his to the king , dated Jan. 8 , 1545-6 , that this advantage cost the enemy a great number of men . But the king was so highly displeased with this ill success , that from that time he contracted a pre- judice against the ...
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