The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Tom 1C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Davies, T. Payne, L. Davis, W. Owen, B. White, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, C. Dilly, J. Dodsley, J. Wilkie, J. Robson, J. Johnson, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, E. Newbery, T. Evans, P. Elmsly, R. Baldwin, G. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, W. Nicoll, J. Murray, S. Hayes, W. Fox, and J. Bowen., 1783 |
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... Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere printed before . former edition I have not feen . The This was transcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and unforeseen , I muft be fuppofed to have ...
... Remarks on Rymer have been fomewhere printed before . former edition I have not feen . The This was transcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and unforeseen , I muft be fuppofed to have ...
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... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party eafily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party eafily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
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... remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondnefs , and their lamentation of forrow . Their wifh was only to fay what they hoped had been never ...
... remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondnefs , and their lamentation of forrow . Their wifh was only to fay what they hoped had been never ...
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... REMARKS are not eafily under- stood without examples ; and I have therefore collected inftances of the modes of writing by which this fpecies of poets , for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers , was eminently ...
... REMARKS are not eafily under- stood without examples ; and I have therefore collected inftances of the modes of writing by which this fpecies of poets , for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers , was eminently ...
Strona 57
... remarks which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time acceffions to Eng- lith literature , and fhew fuch skill as raifes our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing ...
... remarks which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time acceffions to Eng- lith literature , and fhew fuch skill as raifes our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing ...
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