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He is often alluded to as the dancing peer in the Irish pasquinades of that day . ] 20 ( Warburton states that this fact was told the poet of a lady at Paris . ] “ Odious ! in woollen ! ' twould a saint EP . I. ] 11 MORAL ESSAYS .
He is often alluded to as the dancing peer in the Irish pasquinades of that day . ] 20 ( Warburton states that this fact was told the poet of a lady at Paris . ] “ Odious ! in woollen ! ' twould a saint EP . I. ] 11 MORAL ESSAYS .
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Johnson , in his pamphlet on the Falkland Islands , sarcastically alludes to the compensation which the nation received at the close of a ten years ' war , for the death of multitudes , and the expense of millions , by contemplating the ...
Johnson , in his pamphlet on the Falkland Islands , sarcastically alludes to the compensation which the nation received at the close of a ten years ' war , for the death of multitudes , and the expense of millions , by contemplating the ...
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The substitution of Sappho for Flavia , is supposed to glance at Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( whose negligence in dress is often coarsely alluded to by Pope and Walpole ) , but it may have arisen simply from a desire on the part of Pope ...
The substitution of Sappho for Flavia , is supposed to glance at Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( whose negligence in dress is often coarsely alluded to by Pope and Walpole ) , but it may have arisen simply from a desire on the part of Pope ...
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It is alluded to in most of the comedies and fashionable verses of the period . It was in the ring that that curious incident occurred in the life of Wycherley , which Fope related to Spence . “ Wycherley was a very handsome man .
It is alluded to in most of the comedies and fashionable verses of the period . It was in the ring that that curious incident occurred in the life of Wycherley , which Fope related to Spence . “ Wycherley was a very handsome man .
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280 285 290 26 [ The allusion to the fall of China , is taken from Addison in the Spec . tator . The tickets were , of course , lottery tickets , in which Pope and Miss Blount dabbled occasionally . It is curious to find small.pox — so ...
280 285 290 26 [ The allusion to the fall of China , is taken from Addison in the Spec . tator . The tickets were , of course , lottery tickets , in which Pope and Miss Blount dabbled occasionally . It is curious to find small.pox — so ...
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