Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... edition of his works ; and prefixed to an edition by Curll and Tonfon , in 1741 , is a let- ter from Young to Curll ( if Curll may be credited ) , dated December the 9th , 1739 , wherein he fays he has not leifure to review what he ...
... edition of his works ; and prefixed to an edition by Curll and Tonfon , in 1741 , is a let- ter from Young to Curll ( if Curll may be credited ) , dated December the 9th , 1739 , wherein he fays he has not leifure to review what he ...
Page 21
... edition . He hopes it may be fome excufe for his prefumption that the story could not have been read without thoughts of the Countess of Salisbury , though it had been dedicated to another . " To behold , " he proceeds , " a perfon only ...
... edition . He hopes it may be fome excufe for his prefumption that the story could not have been read without thoughts of the Countess of Salisbury , though it had been dedicated to another . " To behold , " he proceeds , " a perfon only ...
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... edition , while it speaks of his prefent retirement , feems to make an unusual ftruggle to escape from retirement ... editions , which , as you had occafion to obferve in the Life of Dryden , are with difficulty found . We must then have ...
... edition , while it speaks of his prefent retirement , feems to make an unusual ftruggle to escape from retirement ... editions , which , as you had occafion to obferve in the Life of Dryden , are with difficulty found . We must then have ...
Page 45
... edition and in the prefent confifts of feventy - three ftanzas , in the author's own édition is reduced to forty - nine . Among the omitted paffages is a Wifh , that con- cluded cluded the poein , which few would have suspected Young ...
... edition and in the prefent confifts of feventy - three ftanzas , in the author's own édition is reduced to forty - nine . Among the omitted paffages is a Wifh , that con- cluded cluded the poein , which few would have suspected Young ...
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... edition of this Effay was , for particular reafons , fuppreffed ; ano- ther was printed .. The Dedication ftill re- mained . To fuppofe therefore that Young approved of Warton's opinion of Pope is not unnatural . Yet the author of the ...
... edition of this Effay was , for particular reafons , fuppreffed ; ano- ther was printed .. The Dedication ftill re- mained . To fuppofe therefore that Young approved of Warton's opinion of Pope is not unnatural . Yet the author of the ...
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