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... himself , and used all his intereft to promote the fuccefs of Thomson's Agamemnon , and attended the firft night of its being performed . Though Agamemnon is not a capital play on the whole , and abounds in languid and long declamatory ...
... himself , and used all his intereft to promote the fuccefs of Thomson's Agamemnon , and attended the firft night of its being performed . Though Agamemnon is not a capital play on the whole , and abounds in languid and long declamatory ...
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... himself my friend . This prints my Letters , that expects a bribe , And others roar aloud , " Subscribe , fubfcribe . " VARIATIONS . VER , III . in the MS . For fong , for filence fome exped a bribe ; And others roar aloud , " Subfcribe ...
... himself my friend . This prints my Letters , that expects a bribe , And others roar aloud , " Subscribe , fubfcribe . " VARIATIONS . VER , III . in the MS . For fong , for filence fome exped a bribe ; And others roar aloud , " Subfcribe ...
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... himself much by his ftrange and abfurd hypothefis of the faults of Paradife loft , which Milton's amanu enfis introduced into that poem . But I have been informed that there was ftill an additional caufe for Pope's refentment : That ...
... himself much by his ftrange and abfurd hypothefis of the faults of Paradife loft , which Milton's amanu enfis introduced into that poem . But I have been informed that there was ftill an additional caufe for Pope's refentment : That ...
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... himself into the thickeft of a foreft , and wore out the wretched remainder of his life in all the agonies of defpair . W. VER . 164. Slashing Bentley ] This great man , with all his faults , deferved however to be put into better ...
... himself into the thickeft of a foreft , and wore out the wretched remainder of his life in all the agonies of defpair . W. VER . 164. Slashing Bentley ] This great man , with all his faults , deferved however to be put into better ...
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... himself . " VFR . 180. A Perfian tale ] Amb . Philips tranflated a Book called the Perfian Tales , a book full of fancy and imagination . P. Philips , certainly not a very animated or first - rate writer , yet appears not to deferve ...
... himself . " VFR . 180. A Perfian tale ] Amb . Philips tranflated a Book called the Perfian Tales , a book full of fancy and imagination . P. Philips , certainly not a very animated or first - rate writer , yet appears not to deferve ...
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