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Page 182
... Pope was left to seek some other remedy . Curll's account was , that one evening a man in a clergyman's gown , but with a lawyer's band , brought and offered for sale a number of printed volumes , which he found to be Pope's epistolary ...
... Pope was left to seek some other remedy . Curll's account was , that one evening a man in a clergyman's gown , but with a lawyer's band , brought and offered for sale a number of printed volumes , which he found to be Pope's epistolary ...
Page 197
... Pope , curiosity was excited ; what Pope would say of Cibber nobody inquired , but in hope that Pope's asperity might betray his pain and lessen his dignity . He should therefore have suffered the pamphlet to flutter and die , without ...
... Pope , curiosity was excited ; what Pope would say of Cibber nobody inquired , but in hope that Pope's asperity might betray his pain and lessen his dignity . He should therefore have suffered the pamphlet to flutter and die , without ...
Page 276
... Pope in the notes to The Dunciad . It is evident that , according to Pope's own estimate , Broome was unkindly treated . If four books could merit three hundred pounds , eight and all the notes , equivalent at least to four , had ...
... Pope in the notes to The Dunciad . It is evident that , according to Pope's own estimate , Broome was unkindly treated . If four books could merit three hundred pounds , eight and all the notes , equivalent at least to four , had ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
WILLIAM SOMERVILE 16921742 | 65 |
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