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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... thought themselves , what they unquestionably were , the best judges of vendible poetry , and who included very few , if any , works in their series for which there was not , at the time it was formed , a considerable degree of demand ...
... thought themselves , what they unquestionably were , the best judges of vendible poetry , and who included very few , if any , works in their series for which there was not , at the time it was formed , a considerable degree of demand ...
Էջ 396
... thought it incumbent to represent every man whose works are here ad- mitted as a prodigy of genius or virtue . This practice , it is true , has been lately adopted in collections of biography , as well as in single lives ; but I am yet ...
... thought it incumbent to represent every man whose works are here ad- mitted as a prodigy of genius or virtue . This practice , it is true , has been lately adopted in collections of biography , as well as in single lives ; but I am yet ...
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... thought of making good their title to that dignity , till a very considerable time thereafter ; but the mansion - house or church , which stood upon the banks of the river Devon , near Stirling , in which the records of the family ...
... thought of making good their title to that dignity , till a very considerable time thereafter ; but the mansion - house or church , which stood upon the banks of the river Devon , near Stirling , in which the records of the family ...
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... thought sufficient to prove the contrary . Leland says he was nobili loco natus ; but Speght , one of his early biographers , informs us that , " in the opinion of some heralds , he descended not of any great house , which they gather ...
... thought sufficient to prove the contrary . Leland says he was nobili loco natus ; but Speght , one of his early biographers , informs us that , " in the opinion of some heralds , he descended not of any great house , which they gather ...
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... 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 the usual progress of mind , his powers seem to have been in their fullest ...
... 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 the usual progress of mind , his powers seem to have been in their fullest ...
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Էջ 217 - A declaration of that paradox, or thesis, that self-homicide is not so naturally sin that it may never be otherwise.