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... Friendship of Pope - His Court Disappointments- His intimacy with Mrs. Howard and the Duchess of Queensberry - Writes The Beggar's Opera - Its great success - His next Play prohibited - His Fables - Death , Burial , and Monument in ...
... Friendship of Pope - His Court Disappointments- His intimacy with Mrs. Howard and the Duchess of Queensberry - Writes The Beggar's Opera - Its great success - His next Play prohibited - His Fables - Death , Burial , and Monument in ...
Page 183
... friendship . There were some letters which a very good or a very wise man would wish suppressed , but , as they had been already exposed , it was impracticable now to retract them . From the perusal of those Letters , Mr. Allen first ...
... friendship . There were some letters which a very good or a very wise man would wish suppressed , but , as they had been already exposed , it was impracticable now to retract them . From the perusal of those Letters , Mr. Allen first ...
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... friendship sacred , because promises of friendship are very awful ties ; but methinks he cannot , but in a burlesque sense , be said to keep his ease sacred . Blest peer ! - The blessing ascribed to the peer has no connection with his ...
... friendship sacred , because promises of friendship are very awful ties ; but methinks he cannot , but in a burlesque sense , be said to keep his ease sacred . Blest peer ! - The blessing ascribed to the peer has no connection with his ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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