Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 195
... wrote to Pope : -I had not strength enough to attend Mr. Prior to his grave ; else I would have done it , to have shown his friends that I had forgot and forgiven what he wrote on me . He is buried , as he desired , at the feet of ...
... wrote to Pope : -I had not strength enough to attend Mr. Prior to his grave ; else I would have done it , to have shown his friends that I had forgot and forgiven what he wrote on me . He is buried , as he desired , at the feet of ...
Page 270
... wrote a poem 7 , and obtained On Nov. 9 , 1729 , Gay wrote to Swift : - ' I have employed my time in new writing a damned play , which I wrote several years ago , called The Wife of Bath . ' Swift's Works , xvii . 263 ; Pope's Works ...
... wrote a poem 7 , and obtained On Nov. 9 , 1729 , Gay wrote to Swift : - ' I have employed my time in new writing a damned play , which I wrote several years ago , called The Wife of Bath . ' Swift's Works , xvii . 263 ; Pope's Works ...
Page 273
... wrote on June 7 , 1717 : - ' As to Gay , he is just upon the wing for Aix - la - Chapelle , with Mr. Pulteney , the late Secretary . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , vi . 244. In his Epistle to Pulteney Gay describes the society ...
... wrote on June 7 , 1717 : - ' As to Gay , he is just upon the wing for Aix - la - Chapelle , with Mr. Pulteney , the late Secretary . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Courthope ) , vi . 244. In his Epistle to Pulteney Gay describes the society ...
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