Enlightened England: An Anthology of Eighteenth Century LiteratureW.W. Norton, 1947 - 1248 pages |
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Page 763
... Scotland was announced almost as soon as he began to appear in the world of letters . In his London , a Poem , are the following nervous lines : For who would leave , unbrib'd , Hibernia's land ? Or change the rocks of Scotland for the ...
... Scotland was announced almost as soon as he began to appear in the world of letters . In his London , a Poem , are the following nervous lines : For who would leave , unbrib'd , Hibernia's land ? Or change the rocks of Scotland for the ...
Page 764
... Scotland , I fairly own I treat them as children . And thus I have , at some moments , found myself obliged to treat even Dr. Johnson . To Scotland , however , he ventured ; and he returned from it in great good humor , with his ...
... Scotland , I fairly own I treat them as children . And thus I have , at some moments , found myself obliged to treat even Dr. Johnson . To Scotland , however , he ventured ; and he returned from it in great good humor , with his ...
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... Scotland over England in one respect , that no man can be arrested there for a debt merely be- cause another swears it against him ; but there must first be the judgment of a court of law ascertaining its justice ; and that a seizure of ...
... Scotland over England in one respect , that no man can be arrested there for a debt merely be- cause another swears it against him ; but there must first be the judgment of a court of law ascertaining its justice ; and that a seizure of ...
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Daniel Defoe | 11 |
Isaac Watts | 57 |
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