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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets - Page 381
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 7

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 524 pages
...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder. No rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 598 pages
...Ijie low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism wus for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity. But when distinctions came to be made, the part which gave the least pleasure was that which describes the Flying...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for awhile lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open...
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The works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters ..., Volume 12

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 486 pages
...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made : It was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was, for a while, lost in wonder. No rules of judgment were applied to a book written in...
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Gulliver's travels. Directions to servants

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made : It was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was, for a while, lust in wonder. No rules of judgment were applied to a book written in...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 430 pages
...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 410 pages
...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 18

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 378 pages
...and disappointed ambition. Criticism was, for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgment could be applied to a book written in open defiance of truth and regularity. But when distinction came to be made, the part which gave the least pleasure was that which describes the Flying...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...received with such avidity, that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate. Criticism was for a while lost in wonder; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open...
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