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... reader that they were done at the desire of the Earl of Oxford and the Duke of Shrewsbury , and he does not omit to add that it was while the one was Lord 6 Treasurer and the other Secretary of State ( see 6 INTRODUCTORY .
... reader that they were done at the desire of the Earl of Oxford and the Duke of Shrewsbury , and he does not omit to add that it was while the one was Lord 6 Treasurer and the other Secretary of State ( see 6 INTRODUCTORY .
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... Duke of Marlborough the only trait which Pope records - and he recurs to it is his love of money . How grand , by contrast , shews Pope's friend , Bolingbroke , who , expressing his admiration of the Duke , when some one present ...
... Duke of Marlborough the only trait which Pope records - and he recurs to it is his love of money . How grand , by contrast , shews Pope's friend , Bolingbroke , who , expressing his admiration of the Duke , when some one present ...
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... Duke of Chandos . And we have to set against any weight which these lines may possess in the question his own declaration ( Satires and Epistles , Advertisement , p . 23 ) , ' Many will know their own pictures in it , there not being a ...
... Duke of Chandos . And we have to set against any weight which these lines may possess in the question his own declaration ( Satires and Epistles , Advertisement , p . 23 ) , ' Many will know their own pictures in it , there not being a ...
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... Duke of Shrewsbury , who had been Secretary of State ; neither of whom look'd upon a satire on vicious courts as any reflection on those they serv'd in . And indeed there is not in the world a greater error , than that which fools are ...
... Duke of Shrewsbury , who had been Secretary of State ; neither of whom look'd upon a satire on vicious courts as any reflection on those they serv'd in . And indeed there is not in the world a greater error , than that which fools are ...
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... Duke of Shrewsbury , died 1718 , after having filled some of the highest offices in the State . and Ep . , Epil . 2. 79 . Somers . See Sat. and Ep . , Epil . 2. 77 . Sheffield . John Sheffield , Duke of Buckinghamshire ( died 1721 ) ...
... Duke of Shrewsbury , died 1718 , after having filled some of the highest offices in the State . and Ep . , Epil . 2. 79 . Somers . See Sat. and Ep . , Epil . 2. 77 . Sheffield . John Sheffield , Duke of Buckinghamshire ( died 1721 ) ...
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Page 30 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 33 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Page 30 - Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 52 - Who counsels best ? who whispers, ' Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace ; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Page 145 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he ' had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 27 - Say, for my comfort, languishing in bed, 'Just so immortal Maro held his head'; And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 144 - whispers through the trees": If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with "sleep": Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 29 - Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 28 - Commas and points they set exactly right, And 'twere a sin to rob them of their mite.
Page 64 - Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart.