The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumes 20-22Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... thought excellent in an amusement I have very little practifed hitherto , nor perhaps ever shall again . Reputation of this fort is very hard to be got , and very easy to be loft ; its purfuit is painful , and its pos- feflion ...
... thought excellent in an amusement I have very little practifed hitherto , nor perhaps ever shall again . Reputation of this fort is very hard to be got , and very easy to be loft ; its purfuit is painful , and its pos- feflion ...
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... thought fit by the College , to reinforce the obfervance of the ftatutes by a bond , which fome of them would not comply with , though none of them had refused the ceremony of the cuftomary oath ; like fome that will truft their wives ...
... thought fit by the College , to reinforce the obfervance of the ftatutes by a bond , which fome of them would not comply with , though none of them had refused the ceremony of the cuftomary oath ; like fome that will truft their wives ...
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... thought it their intereft to defeat fo laudable a defign . The intention of this preface is not to perfuade man- kind to enter into our quarrels , but to vindicate the au- thor from being cenfured of taking any indecent liberty with a ...
... thought it their intereft to defeat fo laudable a defign . The intention of this preface is not to perfuade man- kind to enter into our quarrels , but to vindicate the au- thor from being cenfured of taking any indecent liberty with a ...
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... Horace , Sheffield , Montague . And yet ' tis thought , fome critics in this town , By rules to all , but to themselves , unknown , Will damn thy verfe , and juftify their own . } } Why Why let them damn : were it not wondrous hard [ 14 ]
... Horace , Sheffield , Montague . And yet ' tis thought , fome critics in this town , By rules to all , but to themselves , unknown , Will damn thy verfe , and juftify their own . } } Why Why let them damn : were it not wondrous hard [ 14 ]
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... thought . VARIATIONS . Since he has blefs'd the weary world with peace , And with a nod has bid Bellona ceafe ; I fought the covert of fome peaceful cell , Where filent fhades in harmless raptures dwell ; That reft might past ...
... thought . VARIATIONS . Since he has blefs'd the weary world with peace , And with a nod has bid Bellona ceafe ; I fought the covert of fome peaceful cell , Where filent fhades in harmless raptures dwell ; That reft might past ...
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