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Newcastle prefixed two copies of verses to his characters, in which he calls Flecknoe "his worthy friend," and says:
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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[293] 'Flecknoe's Irish throne:' Richard Flecknoe was an Irish priest, but had laid aside (as himself expressed it) the mechanic part of priesthood.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716
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Or his comic masterpiece, Mac Flecknoe, satirising an obscure Restoration rival: "A tun of man, in thy large bulk is writ,/but sure thou'rt but a kilderkin of wit" (kilderkin: an old English unit of volume equal to two firkins).
Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010
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Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton's _Adventurer_ Nos. 127 and 133.
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Flecknoe was an Irish priest who wrote dull plays; and in this poem Dryden proposes Shadwell as his successor on the throne of dulness.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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_Essay on Wit_ (1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton's _Adventurer_ Nos.
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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_Essay on Wit_ (1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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Flecknoe, in his _Epigrams of All Sorts_, 1671, has "Somewhat to Mr. J.A. on his excellent poem of Nothing."
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_Essay on Wit_ (1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton's _Adventurer_ Nos. 127 and 133.
The Fatal Jealousie (1673) Henry Nevil Payne
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ESSAY ON WIT (1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe and Joseph Warton's ADVENTURER nos. 127 and 133.
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