 | Pickering & Chatto - 1659 - 104 pages
...Fans ; and houses were furnish'd with it in Screens. The person who acted. Polly, til! then ofccure, 'became all at once the favourite of the town; her...her Life written; books of Letters and Verses to her publish'd; and pamphlets made even of her Sayings and Jests " (Pope, Works, 1735, vol. ii., pp. 161-162).... | |
 | John Gay - Ballad operas - 1728 - 102 pages
...it in Fans ; and houses were furnished with it in Screens. The person who acted Polly (Miss Fenton), till then obscure, became all at once the favourite...pictures were engraved and sold in great numbers ; her Li(e written ; books o( Letters and Verses to her publish'd • and pamphlets made even of her sayings... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 pages
...fans ; and houfes were furnifhed with it in fcreens. The perfon who aded Polly, till then obfcure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were ingraved, and fold in great numbers ; her life written, books of letters and verfes to her, published... | |
 | Theophilus Cibber - Poets, English - 1753 - 406 pages
...fans ;. and houfes were furnifhed with it in fcreens. The girl who acted Polly, 'till then obfcure, became all at once the favourite of the town, her pictures were engraved, and fold in great numbers ; her life written ; books of letters and verfes to her publifhed ; and pamphlets... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 264 pages
...fans ; and houfes were furnifhed with it in fcreens. The perfon who acted Polly, till then obfcure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and fold in great numbers ; her life written, books of letters and verfes to her, publifhed ; and pamphlets... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 368 pages
...fans ; and houfes were furnithed with it in fcreens. The perfonwho 'acted Polly, till then obfcure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were ingraved, and fold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and verfes to her, publifhed... | |
 | Biography - 1761 - 536 pages
...fame of it was not confined to the author only : the perfon who acted Polly, till then obfcure, being all at once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and fold in great numbers ; her life written ; books of letters and verfes to her published, and pamphlets... | |
 | Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...fame of it was not confined to the author only; the perfon who afted Polly, till then obfcure, being all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and fold in great numbers ; her life written j books of letter* ( Gay's fables are poetic, and fome of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 340 pages
...fans; and houfes were furnifhed with it in fcreens. The perfon who actcd Polly, till then obfcure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and fold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and verfes to her, pub1 ifhed; and pamphlets... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...fans ; and hou-fes were furniOied with it in fcreens. The perfon who afted Polly, till then obfcure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraveti, and fold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and verfes to her, publiflied... | |
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The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and verses to her published, and pamphlets made even of her sayings... 
