Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... publick will perhaps with that I had folicited and obtained more fuch favours from him . " Dear Sir , In confequence of our different con- verfations about authentick materials for the Life of Young , and in confequence of your fears ...
... publick will perhaps with that I had folicited and obtained more fuch favours from him . " Dear Sir , In confequence of our different con- verfations about authentick materials for the Life of Young , and in confequence of your fears ...
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... publick to the late peace . This is endeavoured to be done by fhew- ing that men are flain in war , and that in peace harvests wave and commerce fwells her fail . If this be humanity , it is not politicks . Another purpose of this ...
... publick to the late peace . This is endeavoured to be done by fhew- ing that men are flain in war , and that in peace harvests wave and commerce fwells her fail . If this be humanity , it is not politicks . Another purpose of this ...
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... publick a party in his private forrow . Should justice call upon you to cen- fure this poem , it ought at least to be remembered that he did not infert it into his works ; and that in the letter to Curll , as we have feen , he advises ...
... publick a party in his private forrow . Should justice call upon you to cen- fure this poem , it ought at least to be remembered that he did not infert it into his works ; and that in the letter to Curll , as we have feen , he advises ...
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... publick good . is " advanced by the encouragement of " learning and the polite arts , and being " pleased therein with the attempts of " Dr. Young , in confideration thereof , " and of the love he bare him , & c . " The fecond was dated ...
... publick good . is " advanced by the encouragement of " learning and the polite arts , and being " pleased therein with the attempts of " Dr. Young , in confideration thereof , " and of the love he bare him , & c . " The fecond was dated ...
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... additional in- dignity of publick corporal correction . From juvenile follies who is free ? Were Nature to indulge the fon of Young . with a fecond youth , and to leave him E 3 . at at the fame time the experience of that . which YOUNG .
... additional in- dignity of publick corporal correction . From juvenile follies who is free ? Were Nature to indulge the fon of Young . with a fecond youth , and to leave him E 3 . at at the fame time the experience of that . which YOUNG .
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