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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... writings of our old poets has diffused itself so widely as to put them wholly out of the reach of moderate for- tunes , as well as to induce those into whose hands they have fallen , to guard them with the most scrupulous anxiety . Even ...
... writings of our old poets has diffused itself so widely as to put them wholly out of the reach of moderate for- tunes , as well as to induce those into whose hands they have fallen , to guard them with the most scrupulous anxiety . Even ...
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... writings , if genius were always dignified by virtue , and wisdom always re- commended by urbanity ; but we look in vain for objects of uni- form panegyric , and the fair display of the striking contrarieties we find in the human ...
... writings , if genius were always dignified by virtue , and wisdom always re- commended by urbanity ; but we look in vain for objects of uni- form panegyric , and the fair display of the striking contrarieties we find in the human ...
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... writing this life , I have disco - prospect . vered the following information respecting the fa- mily and title of the earl of Stirling . The person who assumed that title , and fought on the side of America , in the war 1774-82 , and ...
... writing this life , I have disco - prospect . vered the following information respecting the fa- mily and title of the earl of Stirling . The person who assumed that title , and fought on the side of America , in the war 1774-82 , and ...
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... writings , and enjoying the calm pleasures of rural contemplation . It is thought that the composition of his Canterbury Tales was begun about this time , 1389 , when he was in the sixty - first year of his age , and when , contrary to ...
... writings , and enjoying the calm pleasures of rural contemplation . It is thought that the composition of his Canterbury Tales was begun about this time , 1389 , when he was in the sixty - first year of his age , and when , contrary to ...
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... writings , it must be observed that the French language was prevalent in this country several centuries before his time . Even previously to the Conquest , the Normans had made it a fashion to speak French in the English court , and ...
... writings , it must be observed that the French language was prevalent in this country several centuries before his time . Even previously to the Conquest , the Normans had made it a fashion to speak French in the English court , and ...
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