Cyclopaedia of English Literature: Sixth period from 1727-1780. Poets ; Scottish poets ; tragic dramatists ; Comic dramatists ; Periodical essayists ; Novelists ; Historians ; Metaphysical writers ; Writers in divinity ; Miscellaneous writersRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 - Authors, English |
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... published in March 1726 , the poet having received only three guineas for the copy- right . A second and a third ... published his poem of Liberty , and obtained the sinecure situation of Secretary of Briefs in the Court of Chancery ...
... published in March 1726 , the poet having received only three guineas for the copy- right . A second and a third ... published his poem of Liberty , and obtained the sinecure situation of Secretary of Briefs in the Court of Chancery ...
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... published an address imputing cowardice to the admiral of the fleet . He succeeded : Byng was shot , and Mallet was pensioned . On the death of the Duchess of Marl- borough , it was found that she had left £ 1000 to Glover , author of ...
... published an address imputing cowardice to the admiral of the fleet . He succeeded : Byng was shot , and Mallet was pensioned . On the death of the Duchess of Marl- borough , it was found that she had left £ 1000 to Glover , author of ...
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... published an Inquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe ( 1759 ) , his admir- able Chinese Letters , afterwards published with the title of The Citizen of the World , a Life of Beau Nash , and the History of England in ...
... published an Inquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe ( 1759 ) , his admir- able Chinese Letters , afterwards published with the title of The Citizen of the World , a Life of Beau Nash , and the History of England in ...
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... published two satires , Advice and Reproof , and in 1748 gave to the world his novel of Roderick Random . ' Peregrine Pickle appeared three years afterwards . Smollett next attempted to practise as a physician , but failed , and ...
... published two satires , Advice and Reproof , and in 1748 gave to the world his novel of Roderick Random . ' Peregrine Pickle appeared three years afterwards . Smollett next attempted to practise as a physician , but failed , and ...
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... published some histo- rical works , and was a copious pamphleteer . In 1773 he published a translation of the Iliad in the same style of poetical prose as Ossian , which was a complete failure , unless as a source of ridicule and ...
... published some histo- rical works , and was a copious pamphleteer . In 1773 he published a translation of the Iliad in the same style of poetical prose as Ossian , which was a complete failure , unless as a source of ridicule and ...
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