The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen2C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], 1783 Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. |
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... POETS ; WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORK S. By SAMUEL JOHNSON . A NEW EDITION , CORRECTED . THE SECOND VOLUME . LONDON : PRINTED FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W.STRAHAN , J.RIVING- TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T.PAYNE , L. DAVIS ...
... POETS ; WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORK S. By SAMUEL JOHNSON . A NEW EDITION , CORRECTED . THE SECOND VOLUME . LONDON : PRINTED FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W.STRAHAN , J.RIVING- TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T.PAYNE , L. DAVIS ...
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. DRYDEN . F the great poet whose life I am about to delineate , the curiofity which his to delineate , reputation must excite , will require a display more ample than can now be ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. DRYDEN . F the great poet whose life I am about to delineate , the curiofity which his to delineate , reputation must excite , will require a display more ample than can now be ...
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... poet has made of the puftules firft rofebuds , and then gems ; at laft exalts them into ftars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corps might seem a conftellation . At the univerfity he does not appear to have ...
... poet has made of the puftules firft rofebuds , and then gems ; at laft exalts them into ftars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corps might seem a conftellation . At the univerfity he does not appear to have ...
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... poet , he has interspersed many critical obfervations , of which fome are common , and fome perhaps ventured without much confideration . He began , even now , to exercise the domination of con- fcious genius , by recommending his own ...
... poet , he has interspersed many critical obfervations , of which fome are common , and fome perhaps ventured without much confideration . He began , even now , to exercise the domination of con- fcious genius , by recommending his own ...
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... poet - laureat . The falary of the laureat had been raised in favour of Jonfon , by Charles the First , from an hundred marks to one hundred pounds a year , and a tierce of wine ; a revenue in those days not inade- quate to the ...
... poet - laureat . The falary of the laureat had been raised in favour of Jonfon , by Charles the First , from an hundred marks to one hundred pounds a year , and a tierce of wine ; a revenue in those days not inade- quate to the ...
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