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
... nature of this embassy to Genoa , biography and history are alike silent , and from that silence , the editor of the Canterbury tales is inclined to doubt whether it ever took place , or whether he had that opportunity of visiting ...
... nature of this embassy to Genoa , biography and history are alike silent , and from that silence , the editor of the Canterbury tales is inclined to doubt whether it ever took place , or whether he had that opportunity of visiting ...
Page 406
... nature of those debts , or the existence of his landed property , and it is even doubtful whether this Thomas Chaucer was his son . We know certainly of no son but Lewis , who was born in 1381 , twenty- one years after his marriage , if ...
... nature of those debts , or the existence of his landed property , and it is even doubtful whether this Thomas Chaucer was his son . We know certainly of no son but Lewis , who was born in 1381 , twenty- one years after his marriage , if ...
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... nature with grace and sublimity . In a word , that he appeared with all the lustre and dignity of a true poet , in an age which compelled him to struggle with a barbarous language , and a national want of taste : and when to write ...
... nature with grace and sublimity . In a word , that he appeared with all the lustre and dignity of a true poet , in an age which compelled him to struggle with a barbarous language , and a national want of taste : and when to write ...
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... nature . " Dr. Thomas undertook to publish it , at the request of bishop Smalridge . In the Harleian collection is a copy of an agreement between William Brome , executor to Urry , the dean and chapter of Christ Church , and Bernard ...
... nature . " Dr. Thomas undertook to publish it , at the request of bishop Smalridge . In the Harleian collection is a copy of an agreement between William Brome , executor to Urry , the dean and chapter of Christ Church , and Bernard ...
Page 419
... nature , and which are totally foreign to his general design . " In the fourth book , our confessor turns chemist ; and discoursing at large on the Hermetic science , developes its principles , and exposes its abuses , with great ...
... nature , and which are totally foreign to his general design . " In the fourth book , our confessor turns chemist ; and discoursing at large on the Hermetic science , developes its principles , and exposes its abuses , with great ...
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