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... Pope fays , falfely , to Sommers , who was afterwards chancellor . The poem , whofefoever it was , has much virulence , and fome fpriteliness . The writer tells all the ill that he can col- lect both of Dryden and his friends . The poem ...
... Pope fays , falfely , to Sommers , who was afterwards chancellor . The poem , whofefoever it was , has much virulence , and fome fpriteliness . The writer tells all the ill that he can col- lect both of Dryden and his friends . The poem ...
Page 74
... called Mac Flacknoe ; of which the Dunciad , as Pope himself declares , is an imitation , though more extended in its plan , and more diverfified in its incidents . It is related by Prior , that Lord Dorfet , It 74 DRY D E N.
... called Mac Flacknoe ; of which the Dunciad , as Pope himself declares , is an imitation , though more extended in its plan , and more diverfified in its incidents . It is related by Prior , that Lord Dorfet , It 74 DRY D E N.
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... Pope , " The " Faireft of Criticks , " because he exhibited his own verfion to be compared with that which he condemned . His laft work was his Fables , publifhed in confequence , as is fuppofed , of a con- tract now in the hands of Mr ...
... Pope , " The " Faireft of Criticks , " because he exhibited his own verfion to be compared with that which he condemned . His laft work was his Fables , publifhed in confequence , as is fuppofed , of a con- tract now in the hands of Mr ...
Page 87
... was unani- " moufly graunted by the Prefident and Cenfors . " + This entry is not calculated to afford any credit to the narrative concerning Lord Jefferies . R. G4 ufher ufher of the palace to pope Clement the XIth ; DRYDEN . 87.
... was unani- " moufly graunted by the Prefident and Cenfors . " + This entry is not calculated to afford any credit to the narrative concerning Lord Jefferies . R. G4 ufher ufher of the palace to pope Clement the XIth ; DRYDEN . 87.
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Samuel Johnson. ufher of the palace to pope Clement the XIth ; and , vifiting England in 1704 , was drowned in an attempt to swim across the Thames at Windfor . Henry He is faid to have John was author of a comedy called The Hufband his ...
Samuel Johnson. ufher of the palace to pope Clement the XIth ; and , vifiting England in 1704 , was drowned in an attempt to swim across the Thames at Windfor . Henry He is faid to have John was author of a comedy called The Hufband his ...
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