The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... EDITION , CORRECTED . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . III . LONDON : Printed by Nichols and Son , Red - Lion - Paffage , Fleet - Street , For H. Baldwin , J. Johnfon , G. G. and J. Robinfon , P Elmfly , J. Nichols , R. Baldwin , H. L. Gardner ...
... EDITION , CORRECTED . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . III . LONDON : Printed by Nichols and Son , Red - Lion - Paffage , Fleet - Street , For H. Baldwin , J. Johnfon , G. G. and J. Robinfon , P Elmfly , J. Nichols , R. Baldwin , H. L. Gardner ...
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... edition was raifed before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and il- literate . Criticifm was for a while loft in wonder ; no rules of judgement were applied to a book writ- ten in open defiance ...
... edition was raifed before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and il- literate . Criticifm was for a while loft in wonder ; no rules of judgement were applied to a book writ- ten in open defiance ...
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... edition had this line , What is this wit- Where wanted fcore'd ; and envied where acquired ? " How , " fays the critick , " can wit be fcorn'd where " it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently employed " in Hibernian land ? The perfon ...
... edition had this line , What is this wit- Where wanted fcore'd ; and envied where acquired ? " How , " fays the critick , " can wit be fcorn'd where " it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently employed " in Hibernian land ? The perfon ...
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... edition , was forced to pub- lifh it . The event is faid to have been fuch as was defired , the pacification and diverfion of all to whom it rela- ted , except Sir George Brown , who complained with fome bitterness , that , in the ...
... edition , was forced to pub- lifh it . The event is faid to have been fuch as was defired , the pacification and diverfion of all to whom it rela- ted , except Sir George Brown , who complained with fome bitterness , that , in the ...
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... edition of the English Iliad " was printed in Holland in Duodecimo , and imported clandeftinely for the gratification of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be counteracted by ...
... edition of the English Iliad " was printed in Holland in Duodecimo , and imported clandeftinely for the gratification of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be counteracted by ...
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