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... writers of their own rank , who were much better acquainted with them than any of the Authors of this Comment can pretend to be . Moft of them had drawn each other's Charac- ters on certain occafions ; but the few here in ferted , are ...
... writers of their own rank , who were much better acquainted with them than any of the Authors of this Comment can pretend to be . Moft of them had drawn each other's Charac- ters on certain occafions ; but the few here in ferted , are ...
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... Writers : and fome had been fuch old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their perfons as well as their fanders , till they were pleas'd to revive : them . Now what had Mr. POPE done before to incense them ? He had publish'd those ...
... Writers : and fome had been fuch old offenders , that he had quite forgotten their perfons as well as their fanders , till they were pleas'd to revive : them . Now what had Mr. POPE done before to incense them ? He had publish'd those ...
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... writer inflicts . The next objection is , that these fort of authors are Poor . That might be pleaded as an excufe at the Old Baily for leffer crimes than defamation , for ' tis the cafe of almost all who are try'd there ; but fure it ...
... writer inflicts . The next objection is , that these fort of authors are Poor . That might be pleaded as an excufe at the Old Baily for leffer crimes than defamation , for ' tis the cafe of almost all who are try'd there ; but fure it ...
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... writers to a good one . Such as claim a merit from being his Ad- mirers , I wou'd gladly ask , if it lays him under any perfonal obligation ? at that rate he would be the moft oblig'd humble fervant in the world . I dare fwear , for ...
... writers to a good one . Such as claim a merit from being his Ad- mirers , I wou'd gladly ask , if it lays him under any perfonal obligation ? at that rate he would be the moft oblig'd humble fervant in the world . I dare fwear , for ...
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... writers fo notorious . th . contray , became no man fo well as himself ; as none ( it is plain ) was * As Mr. Wycherley , at the time the Town declaim'd against his Book of Poems : Mr. Wal , after his death : Sir William Trumbull , when ...
... writers fo notorious . th . contray , became no man fo well as himself ; as none ( it is plain ) was * As Mr. Wycherley , at the time the Town declaim'd against his Book of Poems : Mr. Wal , after his death : Sir William Trumbull , when ...
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