The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 30Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... give him the commendations which his virtues deserved . But I affure myself , the most agreeable compliment I can bring your Lordship , is to pay a grateful refpect to your father's memory ' : and my own obligations to him were fuch ...
... give him the commendations which his virtues deserved . But I affure myself , the most agreeable compliment I can bring your Lordship , is to pay a grateful refpect to your father's memory ' : and my own obligations to him were fuch ...
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... gives of the beft writer of this kind that ever lived , " Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico " Tangit , & admiffus circum præcordia ludit : " and the gentleman had always so much the better of the fatirift , that the perfons ...
... gives of the beft writer of this kind that ever lived , " Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico " Tangit , & admiffus circum præcordia ludit : " and the gentleman had always so much the better of the fatirift , that the perfons ...
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... and difficulty . Let me give one inftance of this amongst many . When , as lord chamberlain , he was obliged to take the king's penfion from Mr. Dryden , who had long long before put himself out of a poffibility of receiving DEDICATION .
... and difficulty . Let me give one inftance of this amongst many . When , as lord chamberlain , he was obliged to take the king's penfion from Mr. Dryden , who had long long before put himself out of a poffibility of receiving DEDICATION .
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... publish some other pieces of that kind , in which the foftness of her fex , and the fineness of her genius , confpire to give her a very distinguishing character . POST . I POST SCRIPT . MUST help my preface by a 16 PREFACE .
... publish some other pieces of that kind , in which the foftness of her fex , and the fineness of her genius , confpire to give her a very distinguishing character . POST . I POST SCRIPT . MUST help my preface by a 16 PREFACE .
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... give up my shop , and difpofe of all my poetical goods at once : I must therefore defire , that the publick would please to take them in the grofs ; and that every body would rn over what he does not like . POEMS POE M S By MR . PRIOR ...
... give up my shop , and difpofe of all my poetical goods at once : I must therefore defire , that the publick would please to take them in the grofs ; and that every body would rn over what he does not like . POEMS POE M S By MR . PRIOR ...
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