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... Remarks on Martha Blount . George Arbuthnot's Statement of Pope's Affairs , and Letters on the subject to Martha Blount . Account of the Rackett Family . V. RELICS OF POPE . Seal Ring presented to Warburton . Snuff - box presented to ...
... Remarks on Martha Blount . George Arbuthnot's Statement of Pope's Affairs , and Letters on the subject to Martha Blount . Account of the Rackett Family . V. RELICS OF POPE . Seal Ring presented to Warburton . Snuff - box presented to ...
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... remarks that he left his son 3007. or 400l . a year . The poet , he says , was born at Binfield . This we do not believe , but the assertion that a Mr. Tanner , " an honest man , " succeeded the Popes at Binfield , is supported by a ...
... remarks that he left his son 3007. or 400l . a year . The poet , he says , was born at Binfield . This we do not believe , but the assertion that a Mr. Tanner , " an honest man , " succeeded the Popes at Binfield , is supported by a ...
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... remarks that his ordinary hand was not elegant . But this opinion must have been formed from a hasty survey of the Homer MSS . in the British Museum , which are carelessly written and crowded with interlineations . His letters to Henry ...
... remarks that his ordinary hand was not elegant . But this opinion must have been formed from a hasty survey of the Homer MSS . in the British Museum , which are carelessly written and crowded with interlineations . His letters to Henry ...
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... remark- ing , that sickness , which often destroys both wit and wisdom , yet seldom has power to remove that talent which we call humour . Mr. Wycherley showed his , even in this last compliment ; though I think his request a little ...
... remark- ing , that sickness , which often destroys both wit and wisdom , yet seldom has power to remove that talent which we call humour . Mr. Wycherley showed his , even in this last compliment ; though I think his request a little ...
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... , collated with the original . which we have given in italics , were omitted by Pope . ferred the remark about Plutarch and the tables , to a letter printed as ad- dressed to Steele , June 18 , 1712 . the Kit - cat Club , but he died in.
... , collated with the original . which we have given in italics , were omitted by Pope . ferred the remark about Plutarch and the tables , to a letter printed as ad- dressed to Steele , June 18 , 1712 . the Kit - cat Club , but he died in.
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