Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... King Wil- liam and Queen Mary , and preferred to the deanry of Sarum . Jacob , who wrote in 1720 , fays , he was chaplain and clerk of the closet to the late Queen , who ho- noured him by ftanding godmother to the Poet . His fellowship ...
... King Wil- liam and Queen Mary , and preferred to the deanry of Sarum . Jacob , who wrote in 1720 , fays , he was chaplain and clerk of the closet to the late Queen , who ho- noured him by ftanding godmother to the Poet . His fellowship ...
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... King . Nothing like friendship had yet taken place between Pope and Young ; for , foon after the event which Pope mentions , Young published a poem on the late Queen's death , and his Ma- 5 jefty's * jefty's acceffion to the throne . It ...
... King . Nothing like friendship had yet taken place between Pope and Young ; for , foon after the event which Pope mentions , Young published a poem on the late Queen's death , and his Ma- 5 jefty's * jefty's acceffion to the throne . It ...
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... King as for a Queen . To discover , at the very outfet of a foreigner's reign , that the Gods blefs his new fubjects in fuch a King , is fomething more than praife . Neither was this deemed one of his excufeable pieces . We do not find ...
... King as for a Queen . To discover , at the very outfet of a foreigner's reign , that the Gods blefs his new fubjects in fuch a King , is fomething more than praife . Neither was this deemed one of his excufeable pieces . We do not find ...
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... King , in his paffage from Helvoetfluys ,. efcaped with King , 36 YOUNG . "Guilt's chief foe in Addifon is fled;' ...
... King , in his paffage from Helvoetfluys ,. efcaped with King , 36 YOUNG . "Guilt's chief foe in Addifon is fled;' ...
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Samuel Johnson. King , in his paffage from Helvoetfluys ,. efcaped with great difficulty from a ftorm by landing at Rye ; and the con- clufion of the Satire turns the escape iuto a miracle , in fuch an encomiaftick ftrain of compliment ...
Samuel Johnson. King , in his paffage from Helvoetfluys ,. efcaped with great difficulty from a ftorm by landing at Rye ; and the con- clufion of the Satire turns the escape iuto a miracle , in fuch an encomiaftick ftrain of compliment ...
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