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The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs ... - Page 215
by Alexander Pope - 1806
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The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 8

John Dryden - 1882 - 676 pages
...same time, the honour of knighthood ; for which that monarch's taste is thus commemorated by Pope — The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles. Blackmore "s dulness, or stolidity of temper, rendered him absolutely impenetrable...
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The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late ..., Volume 3

John Wilson Croker - Great Britain - 1884 - 452 pages
...EOGERS. You and I have suffered a great loss this year in Lord Ashburton. [Enclosure in the above.'] The hero William and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles ; Which made old Ben and surly Dennis swear, " No Lord's anointed, hut a Russian...
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The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 668 pages
...same time, the honour of knighthood ; for which that monarch's taste is thus commemorated by Pope — The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles. Blackmore 's dulness, or stolidity of temper, rendered him absolutely impenetrable...
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The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late ..., Volume 3

John Wilson Croker - Great Britain - 1885 - 440 pages
...EOGERS. You and I have suffered a great loss this year in Lord Ashburton. [Enclosure in tlie above.] The hero William and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles; Which made old Ben and surly Dennis swear, " No Lord's anointed, but a Russian bear."...
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Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 5

Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1886 - 474 pages
...On the latter circumstance Pope has some lines in the ' Imitations of Hoi-ace' (Epistle*, ii. 1) — The Hero William and the Martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore and one pension 'd (Jimrlcs ; Which made old Bon and surly Di'iuiis swear, • No Lord's anointed, but a Russian...
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Bygone Essex

William Andrews - Essex (England) - 1892 - 284 pages
...line in one of Pope's satires which speaks of a pension conferred on the poet by Charles I. :— " The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles;" * but of this there is no evidence, and the statement is probably a mistake. But...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed., with Notes and Introductory Memoir

Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...bounding Steed ; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit: But Kings in Wit may want discerning Spirit. 385 The Hero William, and the Martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles7; Which made old Ben, and surly Dennis swear, "No Lord's anointed, but a Russian...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...bounding Steed ; So well in paint and stone they judg'd of merit : But Kings in Wit may want discerning Spirit. 385 The Hero William, and the Martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles7; Which made old Ben, and surly Dennis swear, "No Lord's anointed, but a Russian...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Edited with a Memoir, Revised Text, and Notes

John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...and was knighted also by him. Pope makes it a reproach to King William that he knighted Blackmore : " The hero William and the martyr Charles. One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles." Misses there were, but modestly concealed ; Whitehall the naked Venus first revealed,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir and Notes

Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...steed; So well in paint and stone they judged of merit : But kings in wit may want discerning spirit. The hero William, and the martyr Charles, One knighted Blackmore, and one pension'd Quarles; Which made old Ben and surly Denr.is swear "No lord's anointed, but a Russian bear."...
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