The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. 659313 ADVERTISEMENT . THE HE Bookfellers having deter- mined to publish.
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. 659313 ADVERTISEMENT . THE HE Bookfellers having deter- mined to publish.
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... publish a Body of English Poetry , I was perfuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an undertaking , as it was then prefented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have al- lotted ...
... publish a Body of English Poetry , I was perfuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an undertaking , as it was then prefented to my mind , not very extensive or difficult . My purpose was only to have al- lotted ...
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... publish it ; but I do not yet know that my account is er- roneous . 1 Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere printed before . The former edition I have not feen . This was transcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As ...
... publish it ; but I do not yet know that my account is er- roneous . 1 Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere printed before . The former edition I have not feen . This was transcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As ...
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... was ten years old ; and " Conftantia and Philetus , " written two years . after . 66 While he was yet at fchool he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , ” though it was not published till he had been some time it 4 COWLEY .
... was ten years old ; and " Conftantia and Philetus , " written two years . after . 66 While he was yet at fchool he produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , ” though it was not published till he had been some time it 4 COWLEY .
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... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whofe acquaintance all his contempora- ries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Nau- fragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due ...
... published " Love's Riddle , " with a poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whofe acquaintance all his contempora- ries seem to have been ambitious ; and " Nau- fragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due ...
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