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... ROBERT CARRUTHERS . SECOND EDITION , REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED . WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD . LONDON : HENRY G. BOHN , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . MDCCCLVII . PREFACE . THIS new edition of the LIFE OF POPE.
... ROBERT CARRUTHERS . SECOND EDITION , REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED . WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD . LONDON : HENRY G. BOHN , YORK STREET , COVENT GARDEN . MDCCCLVII . PREFACE . THIS new edition of the LIFE OF POPE.
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... London the following year , 1726 . " - Pope . " Blount died of the small - pox ; and was attended during his ill- ness with the greatest affection and sorrow , by the lady whose name is so often mentioned in these volumes . Soon after ...
... London the following year , 1726 . " - Pope . " Blount died of the small - pox ; and was attended during his ill- ness with the greatest affection and sorrow , by the lady whose name is so often mentioned in these volumes . Soon after ...
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... London in the memorable year of the Revolution , 1688. The belief in judicial astro- logy was then not utterly exploded , and the professors of this pretended science living in Westminster - their ancient stronghold - used to exhibit a ...
... London in the memorable year of the Revolution , 1688. The belief in judicial astro- logy was then not utterly exploded , and the professors of this pretended science living in Westminster - their ancient stronghold - used to exhibit a ...
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... London in the year 1688 . Another contemporary account , published by Curll , professes to be more specific , adding that the poet was born in Cheap- side on the 8th of June , 1688 , " so that one week produced both Pope and the ...
... London in the year 1688 . Another contemporary account , published by Curll , professes to be more specific , adding that the poet was born in Cheap- side on the 8th of June , 1688 , " so that one week produced both Pope and the ...
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... London , always rich and famous for merchandise and Eng- lish spirit , may well claim the honour of being rich also in great poetical and immortal memories.1 In Lombard - street the poet's father carried on the busi- 1 Spence states ...
... London , always rich and famous for merchandise and Eng- lish spirit , may well claim the honour of being rich also in great poetical and immortal memories.1 In Lombard - street the poet's father carried on the busi- 1 Spence states ...
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