Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 من الصفحات |
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... edition had this line : What is this wit- Where wanted , fcorn'd , and envied where acquir'd ? " How , " fays the critick , " can wit be fcorn'd where it is not ? Is not this a " figure frequently employed in Hiber- " nian land ? The ...
... edition had this line : What is this wit- Where wanted , fcorn'd , and envied where acquir'd ? " How , " fays the critick , " can wit be fcorn'd where it is not ? Is not this a " figure frequently employed in Hiber- " nian land ? The ...
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... edition , was forced to publifh it . The event is faid to have been fuch as was defired ; the pacification and di- verfion of all to whom it related , ex- cept Sir George Brown , who complained with with fome bitternefs that , in the ...
... edition , was forced to publifh it . The event is faid to have been fuch as was defired ; the pacification and di- verfion of all to whom it related , ex- cept Sir George Brown , who complained with with fome bitternefs that , in the ...
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... edition of the English Iliad was printed in Holland in Duodecimo , and imported clandeftinely for the gratifica- tion of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be coun- teracted by ...
... edition of the English Iliad was printed in Holland in Duodecimo , and imported clandeftinely for the gratifica- tion of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be coun- teracted by ...
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... edition the fale was doubtless very numerous ; but indeed great numbers were neceffary to produce confiderable profit . Pope , having now emitted his pro- pofals , and engaged not only his own . reputation , but in fome degree that of ...
... edition the fale was doubtless very numerous ; but indeed great numbers were neceffary to produce confiderable profit . Pope , having now emitted his pro- pofals , and engaged not only his own . reputation , but in fome degree that of ...
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... edition , there muft have been an intermediate copy , that was perhaps destroyed as it returned from the prefs . From the first copy I have procured a few tranfcripts , and fhall exhibit first the printed lines ; then , in a smaller ...
... edition , there muft have been an intermediate copy , that was perhaps destroyed as it returned from the prefs . From the first copy I have procured a few tranfcripts , and fhall exhibit first the printed lines ; then , in a smaller ...
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