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... lived to a great age , and had the rare felicity of seeing her son - her only child - crowned with comparative wealth and the highest literary honours , the companion of nobles , and the first poet of his age ; and she experienced from ...
... lived to a great age , and had the rare felicity of seeing her son - her only child - crowned with comparative wealth and the highest literary honours , the companion of nobles , and the first poet of his age ; and she experienced from ...
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... lived upon the principal ; and this statement appearing in Ruffhead's Life , under the authority of War- burton , was continued by Johnson and all the subsequent biographers of Pope . In this , however , as in other instances ...
... lived upon the principal ; and this statement appearing in Ruffhead's Life , under the authority of War- burton , was continued by Johnson and all the subsequent biographers of Pope . In this , however , as in other instances ...
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... lived to see him a great man ; and when she died , in 1725 , the poet erected a stone over her grave , at Twickenham , to tell that Alexander Pope , whom she nursed in infancy , and affec- tionately attended for twenty - eight years ...
... lived to see him a great man ; and when she died , in 1725 , the poet erected a stone over her grave , at Twickenham , to tell that Alexander Pope , whom she nursed in infancy , and affec- tionately attended for twenty - eight years ...
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... lived five years after the close of this correspondence . By the help of common friends a reconciliation was effected , and Pope visited Wycherley in his last illness . Of this serio - comic scene he has given a description in one of ...
... lived five years after the close of this correspondence . By the help of common friends a reconciliation was effected , and Pope visited Wycherley in his last illness . Of this serio - comic scene he has given a description in one of ...
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... lived in ease at his seat of Abberley , in Worcestershire . From admiration of the pastoral poet , Walsh invited him to the country ; and Pope passed part of the summer of 1705 at Abberley . This notice was highly gratifying to him ...
... lived in ease at his seat of Abberley , in Worcestershire . From admiration of the pastoral poet , Walsh invited him to the country ; and Pope passed part of the summer of 1705 at Abberley . This notice was highly gratifying to him ...
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