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Samuel Johnson. Kit - Cat Club , and [ 1706 ] Advice to the Poets how to Celebrate the Duke of Marlborough ; but on occasion of another year of success , thinking himself qualified to give more instruction , he again wrote [ 1709 ] a poem ...
Samuel Johnson. Kit - Cat Club , and [ 1706 ] Advice to the Poets how to Celebrate the Duke of Marlborough ; but on occasion of another year of success , thinking himself qualified to give more instruction , he again wrote [ 1709 ] a poem ...
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... poem to him . For this purpose he made choice of a subject which could regard only persons of the highest rank and greatest affluence , and which was therefore proper for a poem intended to procure the patronage of a prince ; and having ...
... poem to him . For this purpose he made choice of a subject which could regard only persons of the highest rank and greatest affluence , and which was therefore proper for a poem intended to procure the patronage of a prince ; and having ...
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... poets . Young perhaps ascribed the good fortune of Addison to the Poem to his Majesty , presented , with a copy of verses , to Somers ; and hoped that he also might soar to wealth and honours on wings of the same kind . His first ...
... poets . Young perhaps ascribed the good fortune of Addison to the Poem to his Majesty , presented , with a copy of verses , to Somers ; and hoped that he also might soar to wealth and honours on wings of the same kind . His first ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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