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 402
... period , and is not therefore improbable . But in his Court of Love , which was composed when he was about eighteen , he speaks of himself under the name of Philogenet of Cambridge , clerk . Mr. Tyrwhitt , while he does not think this a ...
... period , and is not therefore improbable . But in his Court of Love , which was composed when he was about eighteen , he speaks of himself under the name of Philogenet of Cambridge , clerk . Mr. Tyrwhitt , while he does not think this a ...
Page 404
... period cannot be fixed . Whatever time these supposed employments might have occupied , we discover , at length , with tolerable certainty , that Chaucer betook himself to the life of a courtier , and probably with all the ...
... period cannot be fixed . Whatever time these supposed employments might have occupied , we discover , at length , with tolerable certainty , that Chaucer betook himself to the life of a courtier , and probably with all the ...
Page 404
... period . But although history is silent as to the object of Chaucer's embassy , his biographers have endeavoured to supply the defect , by conjecturing that it might be for the purpose of hiring ships for the king's navy . They find vi ...
... period . But although history is silent as to the object of Chaucer's embassy , his biographers have endeavoured to supply the defect , by conjecturing that it might be for the purpose of hiring ships for the king's navy . They find vi ...
Page 406
... period is , that the duke of Lancaster still preserved his friendship for our poet , and probably was the means of the grants just noticed having been renewed on the accession of the young king . Soon after this , however , Chaucer's ...
... period is , that the duke of Lancaster still preserved his friendship for our poet , and probably was the means of the grants just noticed having been renewed on the accession of the young king . Soon after this , however , Chaucer's ...
Page 408
... period that the duke of Lancaster resumed his influence at court ; but whether Chaucer was enabled to profit by this reverse , or whether he had seen too much of political revolutions to induce him to quit his retreat , his biographers ...
... period that the duke of Lancaster resumed his influence at court ; but whether Chaucer was enabled to profit by this reverse , or whether he had seen too much of political revolutions to induce him to quit his retreat , his biographers ...
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