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... politics , and never willingly wrote on the subject . He drew his friends from both political parties , though circumstances tended to give him more Whig than Tory patrons . Through Swift , the leader of the Tory literary party , Pope ...
... politics , and never willingly wrote on the subject . He drew his friends from both political parties , though circumstances tended to give him more Whig than Tory patrons . Through Swift , the leader of the Tory literary party , Pope ...
Page 160
... political party , or in untrue flattery of the other ; and inferior authors were most un- scrupulous in the base attacks they made on their political opponents . An advantage , however , springing from this association of literature and ...
... political party , or in untrue flattery of the other ; and inferior authors were most un- scrupulous in the base attacks they made on their political opponents . An advantage , however , springing from this association of literature and ...
Page 162
... political change , a confirmation of their own opinions . It is Addison's prose writings that give him the right to ... political parties had their own special organs . There had long been felt a need for some periodical ( not con ...
... political change , a confirmation of their own opinions . It is Addison's prose writings that give him the right to ... political parties had their own special organs . There had long been felt a need for some periodical ( not con ...
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