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... Whig and mem- ber of the Kit - cat Club , a bustling and benevolent man , whose encouragement of Pope was active and disinterested . His Dispensary is one of the best poems of the day ; the sixth canto exhibits considerable power as ...
... Whig and mem- ber of the Kit - cat Club , a bustling and benevolent man , whose encouragement of Pope was active and disinterested . His Dispensary is one of the best poems of the day ; the sixth canto exhibits considerable power as ...
Page 37
... Whig maxims and abjure Apollo ? Sooner shall Major - General cease To talk of war and live in peace , Yourself for goose reject crow quill , And for plain Spanish quit Brazil ; Sooner shall Rowe lampoon the Union , Tydcombe take oaths ...
... Whig maxims and abjure Apollo ? Sooner shall Major - General cease To talk of war and live in peace , Yourself for goose reject crow quill , And for plain Spanish quit Brazil ; Sooner shall Rowe lampoon the Union , Tydcombe take oaths ...
Page 38
... Whig maxims and the Major - General would seem to indicate that even then Pope had taken his side in politics . He had friends of both parties , and was too much absorbed in literature ever to become a keen partisan ; but his leanings ...
... Whig maxims and the Major - General would seem to indicate that even then Pope had taken his side in politics . He had friends of both parties , and was too much absorbed in literature ever to become a keen partisan ; but his leanings ...
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... Whig lampoons of the day , he is said to have been the son of the gaoler at Monaghan in Ireland , " born at the paternal seat of his family -the tap - house at the prison - gate . " Pope , as we shall afterwards see , re- presents him ...
... Whig lampoons of the day , he is said to have been the son of the gaoler at Monaghan in Ireland , " born at the paternal seat of his family -the tap - house at the prison - gate . " Pope , as we shall afterwards see , re- presents him ...
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... Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head . This was the case , too ...
... Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head . This was the case , too ...
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