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POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize the statelinefs of our heroic measure , in this ludicrous narrative ; linefs 4 ++ ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Fairies in the western world. To fay that ...
POPE has endeavoured , fuitably to familiarize the statelinefs of our heroic measure , in this ludicrous narrative ; linefs 4 ++ ESSAY ON THE GENIUS Fairies in the western world. To fay that ...
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THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse . Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us ...
THE WIFE OF BATH , is the other piece of Chaucer which POPE selected to imitate : One cannot but wonder at his choice , which perhaps nothing but his youth could excuse . Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us ...
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