Found 1,335 results for "W. A. Aikin"
by John Bunyan
When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...
by John Milton
Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...
by Alexander Pope
HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my lord Bacon's expression) came home to...
by James Thomson
Critical Observations. When the Author of the Seasons came to London in pursuit of patronage and fame, his first want, ...
by Tobias Smollett
The pills are good for nothing-I might as well swallow snow-balls to cool my reins-I have told you over and over, how ha...
by Oliver Goldsmith
I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who conti...