The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 9. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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Page 19
... myself ( for they contain nothing of present Times or Persons , upon which I shall never lose a thought while there is a Cat or a Spaniel in the house ) but to preserve them from being loft among Messengers and Clerks . I have written ...
... myself ( for they contain nothing of present Times or Persons , upon which I shall never lose a thought while there is a Cat or a Spaniel in the house ) but to preserve them from being loft among Messengers and Clerks . I have written ...
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... myself , to see how ill a taste for wit and sense prevails in the world , which Po- litics , and South - sea , and Party , and Opera's , and Masquerades have introduced . For , be- fides many infipid papers which the malice of some hath ...
... myself , to see how ill a taste for wit and sense prevails in the world , which Po- litics , and South - sea , and Party , and Opera's , and Masquerades have introduced . For , be- fides many infipid papers which the malice of some hath ...
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... myself fo far out - done by the Earl of Oxford in my own trade as a Scholar , and too good a Courtier not to discover his contempt of those who would be men of importance out of their sphere . Befides , to say the truth , although : I ...
... myself fo far out - done by the Earl of Oxford in my own trade as a Scholar , and too good a Courtier not to discover his contempt of those who would be men of importance out of their sphere . Befides , to say the truth , although : I ...
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... myself ; neither can I truly say I have any at all , or , if I had , I dare not venture to publish them : For how- ever orthodox they may be while I am now writing , thay may become criminal enough to bring me into trouble before ...
... myself ; neither can I truly say I have any at all , or , if I had , I dare not venture to publish them : For how- ever orthodox they may be while I am now writing , thay may become criminal enough to bring me into trouble before ...
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... myself ( fince it is a subject on which you ap- pear to have no curiosity ) was it not to try how far the contrast between Pope's fortune and manner of life , and mine , may be carried . I have I I have been , then , infinitely more ...
... myself ( fince it is a subject on which you ap- pear to have no curiosity ) was it not to try how far the contrast between Pope's fortune and manner of life , and mine , may be carried . I have I I have been , then , infinitely more ...
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