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I should tell him that I was not the author ; and therefore I tell you , Mr. Bettesworth , that I am not the author of these lines 3 . ' Bettesworth was so little satisfied with this account that he publickly professed his resolution of ...
I should tell him that I was not the author ; and therefore I tell you , Mr. Bettesworth , that I am not the author of these lines 3 . ' Bettesworth was so little satisfied with this account that he publickly professed his resolution of ...
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I have writ a very masterly poem on the Legion Club ; which , if the printer should be condemned to be hanged for it , you will see in a threepenny book , for it is 240 lines . Mrs. Whiteway is to have half the profit , and half the ...
I have writ a very masterly poem on the Legion Club ; which , if the printer should be condemned to be hanged for it , you will see in a threepenny book , for it is 240 lines . Mrs. Whiteway is to have half the profit , and half the ...
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398 ) wrote just after his death : - ' He was in his person a very venerable figure , with long silver hair and a comely countenance ; for being grown fat , the hard lines which gave him a harsh look before were filled up .
398 ) wrote just after his death : - ' He was in his person a very venerable figure , with long silver hair and a comely countenance ; for being grown fat , the hard lines which gave him a harsh look before were filled up .
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The last line is from Denham's elegy on Cowley :' To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own . ' Ante , COWLEY , 172 . For the dislike of Swift and Gay ' to write upon other folks ' hints ' see ante , GAY , 19 n .
The last line is from Denham's elegy on Cowley :' To him no author was unknown , Yet what he wrote was all his own . ' Ante , COWLEY , 172 . For the dislike of Swift and Gay ' to write upon other folks ' hints ' see ante , GAY , 19 n .
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Works , xvii . 311 . On Aug. 12 , 1732 , he wrote to Gay : - ' They will not give me the medals they promised me ; yet wheedled me out of a present that cost me £ 40 . Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , vii . 282. In his Lines on ...
Works , xvii . 311 . On Aug. 12 , 1732 , he wrote to Gay : - ' They will not give me the medals they promised me ; yet wheedled me out of a present that cost me £ 40 . Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , vii . 282. In his Lines on ...
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