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... first completed in a modern verfion , is offered to the public under the reasonable confidence , that the improved tafte in poetry , and , the extended cultivation of that , in common with all the other ele- gant arts , which fo ...
... first completed in a modern verfion , is offered to the public under the reasonable confidence , that the improved tafte in poetry , and , the extended cultivation of that , in common with all the other ele- gant arts , which fo ...
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... first class and genius , hath looked up to with admiration . That part of the following work which has never yet appeared in a modern drefs , commences with the Franklein's Tale , and extends ( with exception only to that of the ...
... first class and genius , hath looked up to with admiration . That part of the following work which has never yet appeared in a modern drefs , commences with the Franklein's Tale , and extends ( with exception only to that of the ...
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... first he calls him Sir Geoffrey Chaucer , Knight , and says nothing of his family at all ; afterwards he met with Leland's book , and abridged his account of him . John Pitts is very clear that he was of an exceeding good family , and ...
... first he calls him Sir Geoffrey Chaucer , Knight , and says nothing of his family at all ; afterwards he met with Leland's book , and abridged his account of him . John Pitts is very clear that he was of an exceeding good family , and ...
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... first is , that there was fomething very unnatural in this vint- ner's leaving all his eftate to the church while his fon was at the univerfity ; and the fecond , that Chaucer fhould never complain of this , or , for any thing that we ...
... first is , that there was fomething very unnatural in this vint- ner's leaving all his eftate to the church while his fon was at the univerfity ; and the fecond , that Chaucer fhould never complain of this , or , for any thing that we ...
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... first breath in the city of London ; and that he had a great interest amongst its inhabitants is a thing as certain as that it drew upon him many misfortunes , notwithstanding which his having that intereft seems to be a corroborating ...
... first breath in the city of London ; and that he had a great interest amongst its inhabitants is a thing as certain as that it drew upon him many misfortunes , notwithstanding which his having that intereft seems to be a corroborating ...
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Page 53 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Page 54 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse...
Page 56 - Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding; such as are becoming of them, and of them only.
Page 203 - Of fortune, fate, or Providence complain? God gives us what he knows our wants require, And better things than those which we desire...
Page 200 - Till each with mortal hate his rival view'd; Now friends no more, nor walking hand in hand; But when they met, they made a surly stand; And glared like angry lions as they pass'd, And wish'd that every look might be their last.
Page 204 - Thus all seek happiness; but few can find, For far the greater part of men are blind. This is my case, who thought our utmost good Was in one word of freedom understood: The fatal blessing came: from prison free, I starve abroad, and lose the sight of Emily!
Page 165 - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
Page 233 - Where neither beast, nor human kind repair ; The fowl, that scent afar, the borders fly, And shun the bitter blast, and wheel about the sky.
Page 276 - Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend ; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
Page 275 - But, like a low-hung cloud, it rains so fast, That all at once it falls, and cannot last.