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The expiry of the Licensing Act in 1695 halted state censorship of the press. During the next 20 years there were to be 10 general elections. … See more James Thomson also sided with the opposition to Walpole, but his poetry sustained a much more optimistic vision. In The Seasons (first published as a complete entity i… Alexander Pope contributed to The Spectator and moved for a time in Addisonian circles; but from about 1711 onward, his more-influential friendships were with Tory intellectuals. His e…
James Thomson also sided with the opposition to Walpole, but his poetry sustained a much more optimistic vision. In The Seasons (first published as a complete entity i…
Alexander Pope contributed to The Spectator and moved for a time in Addisonian circles; but from about 1711 onward, his more-influential friendships were with Tory intellectuals. His e…
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