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Bell's Edition - Page xlv
by John Bell - 1784
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The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1744 - 496 pages
...fuccefsfully, that His language is now as frefh as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty,...indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the EngliJh Poet, and o'erflows whatever he builds : but, this was lefs His cafe than any man's, that ever...
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The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1768 - 366 pages
...fuccefsfully, that his language is now as frefh as it was at firll fetting out. Were we to ^judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty,...what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide or' words that come in upon the Engliih Poet, and overflows •whatever he builds : but, this was lefs...
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The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...fuccefsfully, that his language is now as fre(h as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at four, fcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Engli(h Poet, and overflows...
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The Works of the English Poets: Waller

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 276 pages
...fuccefsfully, that his language is now as frefh as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of . t. a tide a tide of words that comes in upon the Englim Poet, and overflows whatever he builds: but...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 318 pages
...like inflinft, a ftlle which perhaps will never be obfolete ; and that, " were we " to judge only by the wording, we " could not know what was wrote at " twenty, and what at fourfcore." His verfification was in his firft effay, fuch as it appears in his laft performance. By the perufal...
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The Works of the English Poets: Waller

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 346 pages
...fuccefsfully, that his language is now as frefh as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by the " wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore. Re complains, indeed, of . a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifli Poet, and overflows whatever...
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The Works of the English Poets: Waller

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 284 pages
...fuccefsfully, that hrs language is now ar. frdh as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by tb* wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcare. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englim Poet, and overflows...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...like inftinct, a fryle which perhaps will never be obfolete ; and that, " were we f* to judge only by the wording, we could " not know what was wrote at twenty, and " what at fourfcore." His verfification was, in his firft eflay, fuch as it appears in his laff. performance. By the perufal...
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The Works of the English Poets, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 348 pages
...fuccelsfully, that his language is now as frefh as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourlcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifh Poet, and overflows...
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 336 pages
...like inflincT:, a ftile which perhaps will never be obfolete ; and that,, " were we " to judge only by the wording, we " could not know what was wrote at " twenty, and what a* foUrfcere." His verfification was in his firft cflay, fuch as it appears in his laft performance....
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