Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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Samuel Johnson. PREFACES TO YOUNG , DYER , MALLET , SHENSTONE , AKEN SIDE , LYTTELTON , WEST , AND GRAY . VOL . X. 2 bB NEV YOUNG . HE following Life was written ,
Samuel Johnson. PREFACES TO YOUNG , DYER , MALLET , SHENSTONE , AKEN SIDE , LYTTELTON , WEST , AND GRAY . VOL . X. 2 bB NEV YOUNG . HE following Life was written ,
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... the Queen's death , The Force of Religion , or Vanquished Love , was fent into the world . This poem is founded on the execution of lady Jane Gray and her husband I on 20 YO UN G. The Queen was foon called away from ...
... the Queen's death , The Force of Religion , or Vanquished Love , was fent into the world . This poem is founded on the execution of lady Jane Gray and her husband I on 20 YO UN G. The Queen was foon called away from ...
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Samuel Johnson. on the execution of lady Jane Gray and her husband lord Guilford in 1554 - a ftory chofen for the fubject of a tragedy by Edmund Smith , and wrought into a tragedy by Rowe . The dedication of it to the countefs of ...
Samuel Johnson. on the execution of lady Jane Gray and her husband lord Guilford in 1554 - a ftory chofen for the fubject of a tragedy by Edmund Smith , and wrought into a tragedy by Rowe . The dedication of it to the countefs of ...
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... an unfortunate and cri 、 minal amour of his own , was known by his friends to have been fuggested by the story of Mifs Godfrey in Richard- fon's Pamela . What What Gray thought of his character , from the perufal SHENSTONE . II.
... an unfortunate and cri 、 minal amour of his own , was known by his friends to have been fuggested by the story of Mifs Godfrey in Richard- fon's Pamela . What What Gray thought of his character , from the perufal SHENSTONE . II.
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... clergymen , who wrote verfes too . " His poems confift of elegies , odes , and ballads , humorous fallies , and mo- ral picces . His His conception of an Elegy he has in his His 12 SHEN STONE . What Gray thought of his character, ...
... clergymen , who wrote verfes too . " His poems confift of elegies , odes , and ballads , humorous fallies , and mo- ral picces . His His conception of an Elegy he has in his His 12 SHEN STONE . What Gray thought of his character, ...
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