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 408
... piece , from want of dates , and obscurity of style , is not sufficient to form a very satisfactory biographical document , it at least furnishes the preceding account of his exile and return . The decline of the duke of Lancaster's ...
... piece , from want of dates , and obscurity of style , is not sufficient to form a very satisfactory biographical document , it at least furnishes the preceding account of his exile and return . The decline of the duke of Lancaster's ...
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... piece upon old age " , & c . noticed by Mr. Tyrwhitt , and which he conjectures to have been written earlier than the reign of Henry II . 12 Hist . of Poetry , vol . i . p . 457 . 13 A paraphrase on the Gospel histories , written by one ...
... piece upon old age " , & c . noticed by Mr. Tyrwhitt , and which he conjectures to have been written earlier than the reign of Henry II . 12 Hist . of Poetry , vol . i . p . 457 . 13 A paraphrase on the Gospel histories , written by one ...
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... pieces of Chaucer was added to the Canterbury Tales . Ames notices editions in 1520 and 1522 , but had not seen them , nor are they now known . In 1532 , an edition was printed by Thomas Godfrey , and edited by Mr. Thynne , which Mr ...
... pieces of Chaucer was added to the Canterbury Tales . Ames notices editions in 1520 and 1522 , but had not seen them , nor are they now known . In 1532 , an edition was printed by Thomas Godfrey , and edited by Mr. Thynne , which Mr ...
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... nobiles , tempore Regis Richardi II . et De Causis ex quibus talia contingunt 1 Introductory Discourse to the Canterbury Tales , § xiv . and note 15. C. Enormia : libris septem . " Some lesser pieces are iv LIFE OF GOWER .
... nobiles , tempore Regis Richardi II . et De Causis ex quibus talia contingunt 1 Introductory Discourse to the Canterbury Tales , § xiv . and note 15. C. Enormia : libris septem . " Some lesser pieces are iv LIFE OF GOWER .
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Samuel Johnson. Enormia : libris septem . " Some lesser pieces are annexed to this copy , historical and moral . That in the library of All Souls College , Oxford , appears to have been written , or rather dictated , when he was old and ...
Samuel Johnson. Enormia : libris septem . " Some lesser pieces are annexed to this copy , historical and moral . That in the library of All Souls College , Oxford , appears to have been written , or rather dictated , when he was old and ...
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