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... Tonson , * a man who is to be praised as often as he is named . Of this sum one hundred pounds was placed in the ... Jacob Tonson ( died 1767 ) , the last of a famous family of publisher- booksellers , praised by Johnson . The ...
... Tonson , * a man who is to be praised as often as he is named . Of this sum one hundred pounds was placed in the ... Jacob Tonson ( died 1767 ) , the last of a famous family of publisher- booksellers , praised by Johnson . The ...
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... Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther promise , and engage myself , to make up the said sum of two hundred ...
... Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther promise , and engage myself , to make up the said sum of two hundred ...
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... Jacob Tonson the sum of two hundred sixty - eight pounds fifteen shillings , in pursuance of an agree- ment for ten thousand verses , to be delivered by me to the said Jacob Tonson , whereof I have already delivered to him about seven ...
... Jacob Tonson the sum of two hundred sixty - eight pounds fifteen shillings , in pursuance of an agree- ment for ten thousand verses , to be delivered by me to the said Jacob Tonson , whereof I have already delivered to him about seven ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote