The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 pages |
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... Memoirs of his Life and Writings , published in 1745 , and written by William Ayre , Esq . The existence of " Squire Ayre " ( as he has been called ) was denied by one of his contemporaries , " J. H. , " who asserted PREFACE . vii that ...
... Memoirs of his Life and Writings , published in 1745 , and written by William Ayre , Esq . The existence of " Squire Ayre " ( as he has been called ) was denied by one of his contemporaries , " J. H. , " who asserted PREFACE . vii that ...
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... Memoir of Pope with high pretensions , dedicated it to the poet's noble friends , Bolingbroke , Bur- lington , Marchmont , and Bathurst , and professed to have received large and valuable assistance . He took the precau- tion of ...
... Memoir of Pope with high pretensions , dedicated it to the poet's noble friends , Bolingbroke , Bur- lington , Marchmont , and Bathurst , and professed to have received large and valuable assistance . He took the precau- tion of ...
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... Memoirs , pub- lished the year after the poet's death , adopts this date , but silently drops Cheapside . A short and worthless Life of Pope , by W. H. Dilworth , 1759 , follows Ayre . The next authority purporting to be original , and ...
... Memoirs , pub- lished the year after the poet's death , adopts this date , but silently drops Cheapside . A short and worthless Life of Pope , by W. H. Dilworth , 1759 , follows Ayre . The next authority purporting to be original , and ...
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... Memoirs : London , M. Cooper , 1745. So little reliance is to be placed on the pamphleteers of that day , that the statements of this writer are perhaps as purely an invention as Ayre's nar- rative . G the late Mr. Rogers to believe ...
... Memoirs : London , M. Cooper , 1745. So little reliance is to be placed on the pamphleteers of that day , that the statements of this writer are perhaps as purely an invention as Ayre's nar- rative . G the late Mr. Rogers to believe ...
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... Memoirs of Scriblerus , written in conjunction with Pope and Parnell , formed part of a large design - a design to ridicule all the false tastes in learning , under the character of a man of some capacity , who had dipped into every art ...
... Memoirs of Scriblerus , written in conjunction with Pope and Parnell , formed part of a large design - a design to ridicule all the false tastes in learning , under the character of a man of some capacity , who had dipped into every art ...
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