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... poet's life , the chief authority is Spence's Anecdotes . Johnson had the use of this work in manuscript when writing his life of Pope , and Malone made extracts from it for his life of Dryden . A complete edition , however , was not ...
... poet's life , the chief authority is Spence's Anecdotes . Johnson had the use of this work in manuscript when writing his life of Pope , and Malone made extracts from it for his life of Dryden . A complete edition , however , was not ...
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... poet . Dryden inherited the faults and vices of his age , and he wanted the higher sensibilities , the purity of taste , and lofty moral feeling that dignify the poet's art . But even when sinning with his con- temporaries he soared far ...
... poet . Dryden inherited the faults and vices of his age , and he wanted the higher sensibilities , the purity of taste , and lofty moral feeling that dignify the poet's art . But even when sinning with his con- temporaries he soared far ...
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... poet was born in Cheap- side on the 8th of June , 1688 , " so that one week produced both Pope and the Pretender . " Ayre , in his Memoirs , pub- lished the year after the poet's death , adopts this date , but silently drops Cheapside ...
... poet was born in Cheap- side on the 8th of June , 1688 , " so that one week produced both Pope and the Pretender . " Ayre , in his Memoirs , pub- lished the year after the poet's death , adopts this date , but silently drops Cheapside ...
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... poet's father being put to a merchant in Flanders , acquired a moderate fortune by merchandise . This communication we shall afterwards have occasion to notice in connexion with the publication of Pope's Letters in 1735. There is little ...
... poet's father being put to a merchant in Flanders , acquired a moderate fortune by merchandise . This communication we shall afterwards have occasion to notice in connexion with the publication of Pope's Letters in 1735. There is little ...
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... poet had made out for himself . " He wondered where he got it ; he had never heard anything himself of their being descended from the Earls of Downe , and an old maiden aunt , equally related [ to Pope ] , a great genealogist , who was ...
... poet had made out for himself . " He wondered where he got it ; he had never heard anything himself of their being descended from the Earls of Downe , and an old maiden aunt , equally related [ to Pope ] , a great genealogist , who was ...
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