Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1776 - English poetry |
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Page cxviii
... letter was written for him to Sir William Le- mon , to prevail upon him to interpose his good of- fices with Lord Tyrconnel , in which he solicited Sir William's assistance " for a man who really needed " it as much as any man could ...
... letter was written for him to Sir William Le- mon , to prevail upon him to interpose his good of- fices with Lord Tyrconnel , in which he solicited Sir William's assistance " for a man who really needed " it as much as any man could ...
Page cxix
... letter full of masculine resentment and warm expostulations . He very justly observed that the style was too supplica- tory , and the representation too abject , and that he ought at least to have made him complain with " the " dignity ...
... letter full of masculine resentment and warm expostulations . He very justly observed that the style was too supplica- tory , and the representation too abject , and that he ought at least to have made him complain with " the " dignity ...
Page vii
... Letters on Tranflated Verfe . He once took an op- portunity in conversation with Mr. Pitt to magnify that beauty ... Letter concerning Spenfer , ob- ferves that alliteration is ridiculed too in Chaucer in a paffage which every reader ...
... Letters on Tranflated Verfe . He once took an op- portunity in conversation with Mr. Pitt to magnify that beauty ... Letter concerning Spenfer , ob- ferves that alliteration is ridiculed too in Chaucer in a paffage which every reader ...
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The Volunteer Laureat on her Majestys Birth | 172 |
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