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... Pope's opinion , fit only to make verses , and less qualified for business than Addison himself . This was surely said without consideration . Addison , exalted to a high place , was forced into degradation by the sense of his own ...
... Pope's opinion , fit only to make verses , and less qualified for business than Addison himself . This was surely said without consideration . Addison , exalted to a high place , was forced into degradation by the sense of his own ...
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... Pope there are lasting monuments . He published in 1707 a collection of poems . By Pope he was once placed in a station that might have been of great advantage . Craggs , when he was advanced to be secretary of state ( about 1720 ) ...
... Pope there are lasting monuments . He published in 1707 a collection of poems . By Pope he was once placed in a station that might have been of great advantage . Craggs , when he was advanced to be secretary of state ( about 1720 ) ...
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... Pope restored to Brook was then Broome . It was perhaps after this play that he undertook to revise the punctuation ... Pope's recom- mendation , to educate her son ; whom he first instructed at home , and then attended to Cambridge ...
... Pope restored to Brook was then Broome . It was perhaps after this play that he undertook to revise the punctuation ... Pope's recom- mendation , to educate her son ; whom he first instructed at home , and then attended to Cambridge ...
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... Pope the next ode in the English language to Dryden's " Cecilia . " Fenton may be justly styled an excellent versifier and a good poet . Whatever I have said of Fenton is confirmed by Pope in a letter , by which he communicated to ...
... Pope the next ode in the English language to Dryden's " Cecilia . " Fenton may be justly styled an excellent versifier and a good poet . Whatever I have said of Fenton is confirmed by Pope in a letter , by which he communicated to ...
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... Pope relates , Mr. Cromwell , who could not hear what was said , was at a loss how to reconcile the laughter of the audience with the solemnity of the scene . Of this performance the value certainly is but little ; but it was one of the ...
... Pope relates , Mr. Cromwell , who could not hear what was said , was at a loss how to reconcile the laughter of the audience with the solemnity of the scene . Of this performance the value certainly is but little ; but it was one of the ...
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