The Works Of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, With His Last Corrections, Additions, And Improvements. Containing The First Of His Letters. 7Nicolai, 1764 - 301 pages |
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... leave off writing ; and the best way to fhew my friendship to you , is to put an end to your trouble , and to conclude Yours , & c . W LETTER III . March 25 , 1705 . HEN I write to you , I foresee a long letter and ought to beg your ...
... leave off writing ; and the best way to fhew my friendship to you , is to put an end to your trouble , and to conclude Yours , & c . W LETTER III . March 25 , 1705 . HEN I write to you , I foresee a long letter and ought to beg your ...
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... leave it , who am If I LETTER VI . Your , & c . April 30 , 1705 . I Cannot contend with you : You must give me leave at once to wave all your compliments , and to collect only this in general from them , that your defign is to encourage ...
... leave it , who am If I LETTER VI . Your , & c . April 30 , 1705 . I Cannot contend with you : You must give me leave at once to wave all your compliments , and to collect only this in general from them , that your defign is to encourage ...
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... leave your foreft of beasts for ours of brutes , called men , who now in full cry ( pack'd by the court or country ) run down in the houfe of commons a deferted horned beast of the Court , to the fatisfaction of their spectators ...
... leave your foreft of beasts for ours of brutes , called men , who now in full cry ( pack'd by the court or country ) run down in the houfe of commons a deferted horned beast of the Court , to the fatisfaction of their spectators ...
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... leave to bring thofe above them under their own circunftan- ces . I beg you to perufe my papers , and select what you think beft or most tolerable , and look over them again ; for I resolve suddenly to print some of them , as a harden'd ...
... leave to bring thofe above them under their own circunftan- ces . I beg you to perufe my papers , and select what you think beft or most tolerable , and look over them again ; for I resolve suddenly to print some of them , as a harden'd ...
Page 36
... leave the world , fince I fhall enjoy in your converfation all that I can de- fire of it ; nay , can learn more from you alo- ne , than from my long experience of the great , or little vulgar in it . As to the fuccefs of your poems in ...
... leave the world , fince I fhall enjoy in your converfation all that I can de- fire of it ; nay , can learn more from you alo- ne , than from my long experience of the great , or little vulgar in it . As to the fuccefs of your poems in ...
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