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Pagina 182
... hundred and fifty guineas , in consideration of ten thousand verses , which the said John Dryden , Esq , is to deliver to me Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the ...
... hundred and fifty guineas , in consideration of ten thousand verses , which the said John Dryden , Esq , is to deliver to me Jacob Tonson , when finished , whereof seven thousand five hundred verses , more or less , are already in the ...
Pagina 183
... hundred , more or less ; he the said Jacob Tonson being obliged to make up the foresaid sum of two hundred sixty - eight pounds fifteen shillings three hundred pounds , at the beginning of the second impression of the fore- said ten ...
... hundred , more or less ; he the said Jacob Tonson being obliged to make up the foresaid sum of two hundred sixty - eight pounds fifteen shillings three hundred pounds , at the beginning of the second impression of the fore- said ten ...
Pagina 310
... hundred pounds were to be paid him for each volume . The number of subscribers was five hundred and seventy - four , and of copies eight hundred and nineteen ; so that his profit , when he had paid his assistants , was still very con ...
... hundred pounds were to be paid him for each volume . The number of subscribers was five hundred and seventy - four , and of copies eight hundred and nineteen ; so that his profit , when he had paid his assistants , was still very con ...
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Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote