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. köide |
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In that circumstance , I know by experience a letter is a very useful , as well as amusing thing : If you are too busied in State affairs to read it , yet you may find entertaiment in folding it into divers figures , either doubling it ...
In that circumstance , I know by experience a letter is a very useful , as well as amusing thing : If you are too busied in State affairs to read it , yet you may find entertaiment in folding it into divers figures , either doubling it ...
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te him once since you went : but this perhaps may be only policy , in him or you : and I , who am half a Whig , must not entirely credit any thing he affirms . At Button's it is reported you are gone to Hanover , and that Gay goes only ...
te him once since you went : but this perhaps may be only policy , in him or you : and I , who am half a Whig , must not entirely credit any thing he affirms . At Button's it is reported you are gone to Hanover , and that Gay goes only ...
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I am naturally no very exact correspondent , and when I leave a country without probability of returning , I think as seldom as I can of what I loved or esteemed in it , to avoid the Desiderium which of all things makes life most uneasy ...
I am naturally no very exact correspondent , and when I leave a country without probability of returning , I think as seldom as I can of what I loved or esteemed in it , to avoid the Desiderium which of all things makes life most uneasy ...
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A protestant divine cannot take it amiss that I treat him in the same manner with my patron Saint . I can tell you no news , but what you will not sufficiently wonder at , that I suffer many things as an author militant : whereof ...
A protestant divine cannot take it amiss that I treat him in the same manner with my patron Saint . I can tell you no news , but what you will not sufficiently wonder at , that I suffer many things as an author militant : whereof ...
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Truth is a kind of contraband commodity , which I would not venture to export , and therefore the only thing tending that dangerous way which I shall say , is , that I am , and always will be , with the utmost sincerity , Your's , & c .
Truth is a kind of contraband commodity , which I would not venture to export , and therefore the only thing tending that dangerous way which I shall say , is , that I am , and always will be , with the utmost sincerity , Your's , & c .
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