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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... to say the truth , although : I have known many great Minifters ready enough enough to hear Opinions , yet I have hardly seen 22 LETTERS TO AND From Mr Gay Raillery: What ployment was offered him at court, why he refused XXVII.
... to say the truth , although : I have known many great Minifters ready enough enough to hear Opinions , yet I have hardly seen 22 LETTERS TO AND From Mr Gay Raillery: What ployment was offered him at court, why he refused XXVII.
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... seen one that would ever descend to take Advice ; and this pedantry ariseth from a Maxim them- selves do not believe at the fame time they prac- tise by it , that there is something profound in Politics , which men of plain honest sense ...
... seen one that would ever descend to take Advice ; and this pedantry ariseth from a Maxim them- selves do not believe at the fame time they prac- tise by it , that there is something profound in Politics , which men of plain honest sense ...
Page 46
... seen before a fword - cutler's shop in Germany ; but even in these constrained postures the witty Rascal will divert me ; and he that diverts me does me a great deal of good , and lays me under an obligation to him , which I am not ...
... seen before a fword - cutler's shop in Germany ; but even in these constrained postures the witty Rascal will divert me ; and he that diverts me does me a great deal of good , and lays me under an obligation to him , which I am not ...
Page 53
... seen , without reading . I am exceedingly pleased that you have done with Translations ; Lord Treasurer Oxford often lamented that a • Gulliver's Travels . E 3 rafcally rafcally world should lay you under a necessity of misemploying ...
... seen , without reading . I am exceedingly pleased that you have done with Translations ; Lord Treasurer Oxford often lamented that a • Gulliver's Travels . E 3 rafcally rafcally world should lay you under a necessity of misemploying ...
Page 73
... seen you again before you left us . He faid he observed a willingness in you to live among us ; which I did not deny ; but at the same time told him , you had no such design in your coming this time , which was merely to see a few of ...
... seen you again before you left us . He faid he observed a willingness in you to live among us ; which I did not deny ; but at the same time told him , you had no such design in your coming this time , which was merely to see a few of ...
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