Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... publick much more favourable than his patron , for only seventy - two were sold , though the performance was much ... publick affairs . It must be however allowed , in justification of the publick , that this performance is not the most ...
... publick much more favourable than his patron , for only seventy - two were sold , though the performance was much ... publick affairs . It must be however allowed , in justification of the publick , that this performance is not the most ...
Page 267
... publick business , had no longer any care for his poetical reputation ; nor had any other desire , with regard to Pope , than that he should not , by too much arrogance , alienate the publick . To this Pope is said to have replied with ...
... publick business , had no longer any care for his poetical reputation ; nor had any other desire , with regard to Pope , than that he should not , by too much arrogance , alienate the publick . To this Pope is said to have replied with ...
Page 418
... publick to the late peace . This is endeavoured to be done by shewing that men are slain in war , and that in peace harvests wave , and commerce swells her sail . If this be humanity , is it politicks ? Another purpose of this epistle ...
... publick to the late peace . This is endeavoured to be done by shewing that men are slain in war , and that in peace harvests wave , and commerce swells her sail . If this be humanity , is it politicks ? Another purpose of this epistle ...
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