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... favour , and undertook ( 1726 ) to write a volume of Fables for the improvement of the young Duke of Cumberland . For this he is said to have been promised a reward , which he had doubtless magnified with all the wild expectations of ...
... favour , and undertook ( 1726 ) to write a volume of Fables for the improvement of the young Duke of Cumberland . For this he is said to have been promised a reward , which he had doubtless magnified with all the wild expectations of ...
Page 120
... favour of the public ; but , whatever was the reason , he did not find the world equally inclined to favour him ; and he observed , with some discontent , that though he offered his works at half a guinea , he was able to procure but ...
... favour of the public ; but , whatever was the reason , he did not find the world equally inclined to favour him ; and he observed , with some discontent , that though he offered his works at half a guinea , he was able to procure but ...
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... favours received ; and I know not whether the author who has once solemnly printed an acknow- ledgment of a favour , should not always print it . Is it to the credit or to the discredit of Young , as a poet , that of his Night Thoughts ...
... favours received ; and I know not whether the author who has once solemnly printed an acknow- ledgment of a favour , should not always print it . Is it to the credit or to the discredit of Young , as a poet , that of his Night Thoughts ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
WILLIAM SOMERVILE 16921742 | 65 |
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