Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... four volumes to be the most " excufeable of all that I have written ; " and I with lefs apology was needful for thefe . As there is no recalling what " is got abroad , the pieces here re- " published I have revised and corrected , " and ...
... four volumes to be the most " excufeable of all that I have written ; " and I with lefs apology was needful for thefe . As there is no recalling what " is got abroad , the pieces here re- " published I have revised and corrected , " and ...
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... four thou- fand . This story may be true ; but it seems to have been raised from the two anfwers of Lord Burghley and Sir Philip Sidney in Spenfer's Life . When Young was writing a tragedy , Grafton is faid to have sent him a human ...
... four thou- fand . This story may be true ; but it seems to have been raised from the two anfwers of Lord Burghley and Sir Philip Sidney in Spenfer's Life . When Young was writing a tragedy , Grafton is faid to have sent him a human ...
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... four volumes ; and the editors of the prefent collection of Eng- lifh poetry have , for once , followed the decifion of the author . Of all the pieces 7 which which Young condemned as inexcufe- able , this alone has 54 YOUN G.
... four volumes ; and the editors of the prefent collection of Eng- lifh poetry have , for once , followed the decifion of the author . Of all the pieces 7 which which Young condemned as inexcufe- able , this alone has 54 YOUN G.
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Samuel Johnson. mourners only know . Of thefe poems the three or four firft have been perused perhaps more eagerly , and more fre- quently , than the latter . When he got as far as the fourth or fifth , his grief was naturally either ...
Samuel Johnson. mourners only know . Of thefe poems the three or four firft have been perused perhaps more eagerly , and more fre- quently , than the latter . When he got as far as the fourth or fifth , his grief was naturally either ...
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... Four , fhould not be excluded . They afford a picture , by his own hand ; from the ftudy of which my readers may choose to form their own opinion of the features of his mind , and the complexion of his life . Ah me ! the dire effect Of ...
... Four , fhould not be excluded . They afford a picture , by his own hand ; from the ftudy of which my readers may choose to form their own opinion of the features of his mind , and the complexion of his life . Ah me ! the dire effect Of ...
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