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... faid he intended to write his life ; on which Mr. Spence , with his usual modefty and condefcenfion , said , that he also had the fame intentions ; and bad , from time to time , collected from Pope's own mouth , various particulars of ...
... faid he intended to write his life ; on which Mr. Spence , with his usual modefty and condefcenfion , said , that he also had the fame intentions ; and bad , from time to time , collected from Pope's own mouth , various particulars of ...
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... faid to be the ridicule and laughter he met with from all the Hanover Club , of which he was fecretary , for raiftaking the incomparable ironical paper in the Guardian , No. 40 . which was written by Pope , for a ferious criticism on ...
... faid to be the ridicule and laughter he met with from all the Hanover Club , of which he was fecretary , for raiftaking the incomparable ironical paper in the Guardian , No. 40 . which was written by Pope , for a ferious criticism on ...
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... faid to have happened , it will be no breach of charity to suppose that the whole of it was founded on fome mifapprehenfion in either Mr. Pope or the Earl ; and unless better proof can be given , we fhall readily acquit Mr. Addison of ...
... faid to have happened , it will be no breach of charity to suppose that the whole of it was founded on fome mifapprehenfion in either Mr. Pope or the Earl ; and unless better proof can be given , we fhall readily acquit Mr. Addison of ...
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... faid of Addifon , " viz . - " ( Excufe fome courtly ftains ) " No whiter page than Addison remains , " & c . From a manufcript letter of Mr. Clarke , who wrote on Antient Coins , to his learned printer and friend Mr. Bowyer ; July 6 ...
... faid of Addifon , " viz . - " ( Excufe fome courtly ftains ) " No whiter page than Addison remains , " & c . From a manufcript letter of Mr. Clarke , who wrote on Antient Coins , to his learned printer and friend Mr. Bowyer ; July 6 ...
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... faid to him , " Young man , you will never be a poet : " And that this was the cause of Swift's rooted averfion to Dryden ,, mentioned above . Baucis and Philemon was fo much and fo often altered , at the infligation of Addison , who ...
... faid to him , " Young man , you will never be a poet : " And that this was the cause of Swift's rooted averfion to Dryden ,, mentioned above . Baucis and Philemon was fo much and fo often altered , at the infligation of Addison , who ...
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