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... Addison leaves him the charge of Publishing his Works - His Elegy on Addison - Made Secretary to the Lords Justices - Death at Bath - Works and Character . THOMAS TICKELL , the son of the Reverend Richard Tickell , was born in 1686 ...
... Addison leaves him the charge of Publishing his Works - His Elegy on Addison - Made Secretary to the Lords Justices - Death at Bath - Works and Character . THOMAS TICKELL , the son of the Reverend Richard Tickell , was born in 1686 ...
Page 155
... Addison , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are often spread with boldness very disproportionate to their evidence . Why should Addison receive any particular disturbance from the last lines of Windsor Forest ? If ...
... Addison , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are often spread with boldness very disproportionate to their evidence . Why should Addison receive any particular disturbance from the last lines of Windsor Forest ? If ...
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... Addison and he were now [ 1715 ] at the head of poetry and criticism ; and both in such a state of elevation , that , like the two rivals in the Roman state , one could no longer bear an equal , nor the other a superior . Of the gradual ...
... Addison and he were now [ 1715 ] at the head of poetry and criticism ; and both in such a state of elevation , that , like the two rivals in the Roman state , one could no longer bear an equal , nor the other a superior . Of the gradual ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
WILLIAM SOMERVILE 16921742 | 65 |
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