Poets, English -- 18th century -- Biography; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Variant spellings of William Shakspeare's name have been standardized in
the text, but not in the advertisements at the end of the book.
The following words use an oe ligature in the original:
Boeotian
Breboeuf
manoeuvre
manoeuvres
Phoebus
The following corrections have been made to the text:
page 6: Like so many other poets, he took[original has comma]
infinite delight in
page 14: his companions could practice[original has practise]
with comparative impunity
page 17: we have already[original has aleady] reached
page 25: refine as the reasoning faculties develop[original
has develope]
page 50: Addison gave to Lady M. W. Montagu[original has
Montague]
page 51: _Ib._, March[original has comma] 25
page 54: when dying in distress[original has distres]
page 55: Addison recognizes[original has recognises] his true
character
page 66: philologists and antiquarians in the
background[original has back-ground]
page 73: He allows Teucer to call Hector a dog, but
apologizes[original has apologises] in a note.
page 84: for his neglect of Popish superstition[original has
supersition]
page 86: he was familiar[original has familar] with Bridgeman
and Kent
page 125: what the authors would have suppressed[original has
suppresed]
page 125: he was like a civilised[original has civilized]
commander
page 126: either to shirk responsibility[original has
reponsibility]
page 127: and how successive[original has sucessive] editions
page 135: installed Cibber in[original has in in] his place
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