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See also Gay's letter in Swift's * Gay wrote to Swift on March 18 , Works , xvii . ... Prior celebrated her in vated by letters she would never have The Female Phaethon :mistaken Johnny Gay for a wit , and “ Thus Kitty , beautiful and ...
See also Gay's letter in Swift's * Gay wrote to Swift on March 18 , Works , xvii . ... Prior celebrated her in vated by letters she would never have The Female Phaethon :mistaken Johnny Gay for a wit , and “ Thus Kitty , beautiful and ...
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... and examined her papers , among which he found some letters written to her by the Lady Mason , which informed him ... The first edition , published in 1726 , is in a letter of hers , a copy of which does not contain this Preface .
... and examined her papers , among which he found some letters written to her by the Lady Mason , which informed him ... The first edition , published in 1726 , is in a letter of hers , a copy of which does not contain this Preface .
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Mr. Savage was likewise very far from believing that the letters 108 annexed to each species of bad poets in The Bathos were , as he was directed to assert , ' set down at random * , ' for when he was charged by one of his friends with ...
Mr. Savage was likewise very far from believing that the letters 108 annexed to each species of bad poets in The Bathos were , as he was directed to assert , ' set down at random * , ' for when he was charged by one of his friends with ...
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