A letter to W. Mason ... concerning his edition of mr. Gray's poems and the practices of booksellers, by a bookseller [J. Murray].1777 |
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... against me , and against no other perfon of the profeffion , for the charge it contains , ADVERTISEMENT .. " THE author printed a certain " number of copies of this fecond " book last year , to give to his " friends , intending at that ...
... against me , and against no other perfon of the profeffion , for the charge it contains , ADVERTISEMENT .. " THE author printed a certain " number of copies of this fecond " book last year , to give to his " friends , intending at that ...
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... against me , you would not have attempted to bias the public by an appeal in your favour . Do you defire to elude the force of this charge by pleading , that your ad- vertisement , being conceived in ge- neral terms , can be applied to ...
... against me , you would not have attempted to bias the public by an appeal in your favour . Do you defire to elude the force of this charge by pleading , that your ad- vertisement , being conceived in ge- neral terms , can be applied to ...
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... for I will venture for once to pronounce that no person will be tempted to reprint Mafon's English Garden for the fake of Emo- \\ Mument . B 4 against against me for printing fome Poems written by the late WILLIAM MASON , A.M..
... for I will venture for once to pronounce that no person will be tempted to reprint Mafon's English Garden for the fake of Emo- \\ Mument . B 4 against against me for printing fome Poems written by the late WILLIAM MASON , A.M..
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John Murray. against me for printing fome Poems written by the late Mr. Gray , which the former claims for his property , but a fingle line , equal to which , his flimfy genius was never capable of producing . The circumftances ...
John Murray. against me for printing fome Poems written by the late Mr. Gray , which the former claims for his property , but a fingle line , equal to which , his flimfy genius was never capable of producing . The circumftances ...
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... against ex- tracts of all kinds from new publi- cations . If fifty lines are property , one line is property . And whether I find it in a Magazine , Review , or News - paper , I claim it , and can pro- fecute for damages . Will you af ...
... against ex- tracts of all kinds from new publi- cations . If fifty lines are property , one line is property . And whether I find it in a Magazine , Review , or News - paper , I claim it , and can pro- fecute for damages . Will you af ...
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Page 61 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear And weep the more because I weep in vain.
Page 57 - Perhaps he was the most learned man in Europe. He was equally acquainted with the elegant and profound parts of science, and that not superficially, but thoroughly. He knew every branch of history, both natural and civil; had read all the original historians of England, France, and Italy; and was a great antiquarian. Criticism...
Page 58 - in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather cf" feminacy, and a vifible faftidioufnefs, or contempt, " and difdain of his inferiors in fcience. He alfo " had, in fome degree, that weaknefs which difgufted " Voltaire fo much in Mr. Congreve : though he " feemed to value others chiefly according to the pro...
Page 58 - ... merely as a man of letters; and though without birth, or fortune, or station, his desire was to be looked upon as a private independent gentleman, who read for his amusement.
Page 60 - To rush and sweep them from the world ! Too, too secure in youthful pride, By them, my friend, my Hoel, died, Great Cian's son : of Madoc old He ask'd no heaps of hoarded gold ; Alone in Nature's wealth array'd, He ask'd and had the lovely Maid.
Page 61 - Or the grape's ecstatic juice. Flush'd with mirth and hope they burn, But none from Cattraeth's vale return, Save Aeron brave, and Conan strong, (Bursting through the bloody throng) And I, the meanest of them all, That live to weep and sing their fall.
Page 59 - What signifies so much knowledge, when it produced so little? Is it worth taking so much pains to leave no memorial but a few poems?
Page 61 - And redd'ning Phcebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join; Or cheerful fields resume their green attire : These ears, alas ! for other notes repine, A different object do these eyes require. My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire.
Page 61 - And in my breaft the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning fmiles the bufy race to cheer, And new-born pleafure brings to happier men : The fields to all their wonted tribute bear : To warm their little loves the birds complain...
Page 57 - Perhaps he was the moft learned man in Europe. "He was equally acquainted with the elegant and " profound parts of fcience, and that not fuperfi