Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... second heavens , and leaving the fixed stars behind her ; —nor will he lose her there , but keep her still in view through the boundless spaces on the other fide of Creation , in her jour- ney towards eternal blifs , till he behold the ...
... second heavens , and leaving the fixed stars behind her ; —nor will he lose her there , but keep her still in view through the boundless spaces on the other fide of Creation , in her jour- ney towards eternal blifs , till he behold the ...
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... Second . The tragedy of The Brothers , which was already in rehearsal , he immediately withdrew from the stage . The managers refigned it with fome reluctance to the delicacy of the new clergyman . The Epilogue to The Brothers , the ...
... Second . The tragedy of The Brothers , which was already in rehearsal , he immediately withdrew from the stage . The managers refigned it with fome reluctance to the delicacy of the new clergyman . The Epilogue to The Brothers , the ...
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... Second , elaborated by the searches and deliberations of twenty years , and published with fuch anxiety as only vanity can dictate . The ftory of this publication is re- markable . The whole work was printed twice over , a great part of ...
... Second , elaborated by the searches and deliberations of twenty years , and published with fuch anxiety as only vanity can dictate . The ftory of this publication is re- markable . The whole work was printed twice over , a great part of ...
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... Second . The book was at laft pointed and printed , and fent into the world . Lyttelton took money for his copy , of which , when he had paid the Pointer , he probably gave the reft away ; for he was very liberal to the indigent . When ...
... Second . The book was at laft pointed and printed , and fent into the world . Lyttelton took money for his copy , of which , when he had paid the Pointer , he probably gave the reft away ; for he was very liberal to the indigent . When ...
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... the first relates merely to the nymph , and the second only to the cat . The fixth ftanza contains a melancholy truth , that a favourite has no friend ; but the laft laft ends in a pointed fentence of no rela- tion GRAY .
... the first relates merely to the nymph , and the second only to the cat . The fixth ftanza contains a melancholy truth , that a favourite has no friend ; but the laft laft ends in a pointed fentence of no rela- tion GRAY .
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