The Works of the English Poets, Volume 19J. Rivington, 1779 - 366 pages |
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Page 94
... write ; and my judges , if they are not very equitable , already prejudiced against me , by the lying character which has been given them of my morals . Yet , fteady to my principles , and not difpirited with my afflictions , I have ...
... write ; and my judges , if they are not very equitable , already prejudiced against me , by the lying character which has been given them of my morals . Yet , fteady to my principles , and not difpirited with my afflictions , I have ...
Page 103
... writer , than the skill ; when I was drawing the out - lines of an art , without any living mafter to inftruct me in it ; an art which had been better praifed than ftudied here in England , wherein Shakespeare , who created the stage ...
... writer , than the skill ; when I was drawing the out - lines of an art , without any living mafter to inftruct me in it ; an art which had been better praifed than ftudied here in England , wherein Shakespeare , who created the stage ...
Page 104
... writer this day living , who is not perfectly convinced , that your Lordship excels all others , in all the feveral parts of Poetry which you have undertaken to adorn . The most vain , and the most ambitious of our age , have not dared ...
... writer this day living , who is not perfectly convinced , that your Lordship excels all others , in all the feveral parts of Poetry which you have undertaken to adorn . The most vain , and the most ambitious of our age , have not dared ...
Page 107
... write , you will not . Mankind that wishes you fo well , in all things that relate to your profperity , have their ... writing , that we cannot fubfift DEDICATION . 107.
... write , you will not . Mankind that wishes you fo well , in all things that relate to your profperity , have their ... writing , that we cannot fubfift DEDICATION . 107.
Page 108
... write ; and in relation to a multitude of fcribblers , who daily pefter the world with their infufferable stuff , that they might be difcouraged from writing any more . I complain not of their lampoons and libels , though I have been ...
... write ; and in relation to a multitude of fcribblers , who daily pefter the world with their infufferable stuff , that they might be difcouraged from writing any more . I complain not of their lampoons and libels , though I have been ...
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