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 441
... elegant manners , and of such conversation talents , both as to sense and wit , as to have attracted the admiration of all ranks , and particularly of his sovereign , who bestowed on him the order of knighthood , and employed him in ...
... elegant manners , and of such conversation talents , both as to sense and wit , as to have attracted the admiration of all ranks , and particularly of his sovereign , who bestowed on him the order of knighthood , and employed him in ...
Page 443
... elegant , and all highly encomiastic , entitled " Næniæ in mortem Thomæ Wiati , equitis incomparabilis , Joanne Lelando Antiquario , Auctore , 4to . " This scarce pamphlet has a wood cut of Wyat , supposed to be by Holbein , but ...
... elegant , and all highly encomiastic , entitled " Næniæ in mortem Thomæ Wiati , equitis incomparabilis , Joanne Lelando Antiquario , Auctore , 4to . " This scarce pamphlet has a wood cut of Wyat , supposed to be by Holbein , but ...
Page 445
... elegance , and modulation , and thinks that as a writer of verses in rhyme , he yields to noue of his contemporaries , for a masterly choice of chaste expression , and concise elegancies of didactic versification . The remainder of ...
... elegance , and modulation , and thinks that as a writer of verses in rhyme , he yields to noue of his contemporaries , for a masterly choice of chaste expression , and concise elegancies of didactic versification . The remainder of ...
Page 160
... Elegant and Witty Epigrams of sir John Harrington , 1625 , " we find the following Epitaph in commendation of George Turberville , a learned gentleman . • " When times were yet but rude , thy pen endeavour'd To polish barbarism with ...
... Elegant and Witty Epigrams of sir John Harrington , 1625 , " we find the following Epitaph in commendation of George Turberville , a learned gentleman . • " When times were yet but rude , thy pen endeavour'd To polish barbarism with ...
Page 166
... elegant poem , appears to have been inspired by a mistress whom he has recorded under the name of Rosalind , and who , after trifling with his affection , preferred his rival . He is supposed also to allude to the cruelty of this same ...
... elegant poem , appears to have been inspired by a mistress whom he has recorded under the name of Rosalind , and who , after trifling with his affection , preferred his rival . He is supposed also to allude to the cruelty of this same ...
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