Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Boywer, Printer, F.S.A. and Many of His Learned Friends; an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During the Last Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artists; with a Very Copious Index, Том 5author, 1812 |
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... verses , in March 1738 , addressed to the Editor in so happy a style of compliment , that Cave must have been destitute both of taste and sensibility , had be not felt himself highly gratified . Ad URBANUM * . URBANE , nullis fesse ...
... verses , in March 1738 , addressed to the Editor in so happy a style of compliment , that Cave must have been destitute both of taste and sensibility , had be not felt himself highly gratified . Ad URBANUM * . URBANE , nullis fesse ...
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... verses you sent me are very sensible and touching ; and the sentiments in them , I doubt not , exhilarated the blood for some time , and suspended the black execution ; but his distemper , it may be said , got the better , and carried ...
... verses you sent me are very sensible and touching ; and the sentiments in them , I doubt not , exhilarated the blood for some time , and suspended the black execution ; but his distemper , it may be said , got the better , and carried ...
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... verses to Lady Firebrace may be had when you please , for you know that such a subject neither deserves much thought , nor requires it . " The Chinese Stories may be had folded down when you please to send , in which I do not recol ...
... verses to Lady Firebrace may be had when you please , for you know that such a subject neither deserves much thought , nor requires it . " The Chinese Stories may be had folded down when you please to send , in which I do not recol ...
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... Verses , a backwardness to deter- mine their degrees of merit is not peculiar to me . You may , if you please , still have what I can say ; but I shall engage with little spirit in an affair , which I shall hardly end to my own ...
... Verses , a backwardness to deter- mine their degrees of merit is not peculiar to me . You may , if you please , still have what I can say ; but I shall engage with little spirit in an affair , which I shall hardly end to my own ...
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... Verse . Besides these , he translated other pieces of Milton , a Poem of Blackmore's , the Book of Eccle- siastes , and other things , most of which are in Mr. Bindley's library . By the manner in which Lauder is here mentioned by Cave ...
... Verse . Besides these , he translated other pieces of Milton , a Poem of Blackmore's , the Book of Eccle- siastes , and other things , most of which are in Mr. Bindley's library . By the manner in which Lauder is here mentioned by Cave ...
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