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... figure and a publisher of high standards , who nonetheless exhibited some unendearing traits relevant to this shift - social climbing , meanness , a measure of dissimulation . Tonson was a friend of the poets , unlike Curll , but ...
... figure and a publisher of high standards , who nonetheless exhibited some unendearing traits relevant to this shift - social climbing , meanness , a measure of dissimulation . Tonson was a friend of the poets , unlike Curll , but ...
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... figure in the mythology of the age , just because he was a key figure in its true history . At first sight he is an uninspiring kind of villain ; that Defoe , Pope , Swift , Gay and Fielding should have found him so useful to their ...
... figure in the mythology of the age , just because he was a key figure in its true history . At first sight he is an uninspiring kind of villain ; that Defoe , Pope , Swift , Gay and Fielding should have found him so useful to their ...
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... figures are two comic writers , Richard Steele and Colley Cibber , along with two tragedians , Nicholas Rowe and ... figure of fun wrote some truly interesting plays . His first success , Love's Last Shift ( 1696 ) , has claims to be ...
... figures are two comic writers , Richard Steele and Colley Cibber , along with two tragedians , Nicholas Rowe and ... figure of fun wrote some truly interesting plays . His first success , Love's Last Shift ( 1696 ) , has claims to be ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
Copyright | |
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