The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... a real one upon them- felves ; and by saying how much this fmall performance exceeds fome others , they convince the world how far it falls fhort of theirs . THE THE COPY OF AN INSTRUMENT Subfcribed by the Prefident , PREFACE . 9.
... a real one upon them- felves ; and by saying how much this fmall performance exceeds fome others , they convince the world how far it falls fhort of theirs . THE THE COPY OF AN INSTRUMENT Subfcribed by the Prefident , PREFACE . 9.
Page 112
... Say , is it rathness or despair provokes Your harden'd hearts to these repeated strokes ? Reply : - Behold , their looks , their fouls declare , All pale with guilt , and dumb with deep despair . Hear then , you sons of blood , your ...
... Say , is it rathness or despair provokes Your harden'd hearts to these repeated strokes ? Reply : - Behold , their looks , their fouls declare , All pale with guilt , and dumb with deep despair . Hear then , you sons of blood , your ...
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... say ; We hate you , when you ' re eafily faid nay . How needlefs , if you knew us , were your fears ! Let Love have eyes , and Beauty will have ears . Our hearts are form'd , as you yourselves would choose , Too proud to afk , too ...
... say ; We hate you , when you ' re eafily faid nay . How needlefs , if you knew us , were your fears ! Let Love have eyes , and Beauty will have ears . Our hearts are form'd , as you yourselves would choose , Too proud to afk , too ...
Page 187
... say , " That a good dinner is brother to a good " poem : " only it is fomething more fubftantial ; and , between two and three a clo.k , more agreeable . I have known a fupper make the moft diverting part of a Comedy . Mr. Betterton ...
... say , " That a good dinner is brother to a good " poem : " only it is fomething more fubftantial ; and , between two and three a clo.k , more agreeable . I have known a fupper make the moft diverting part of a Comedy . Mr. Betterton ...
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... say , " that , if he were upon a strange road , " and driven to great neceffity , the believed the might for once be able to fup upon a fack - posset and a fat " capon . " : I ain fure Poets , as well as Cooks , are for having all words ...
... say , " that , if he were upon a strange road , " and driven to great neceffity , the believed the might for once be able to fup upon a fack - posset and a fat " capon . " : I ain fure Poets , as well as Cooks , are for having all words ...
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