The Works Of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, With His Last Corrections, Additions, And Improvements. Being The Fourth Of His Letters. 10Nicolai, 1764 - 166 pages |
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... attend your Grace , I will out of fear and prudence appear as vain as I can , that I may not know your thoughts of me . This is your own direction , but it was needless : For Diogenes himself would be vain , to have received the honour ...
... attend your Grace , I will out of fear and prudence appear as vain as I can , that I may not know your thoughts of me . This is your own direction , but it was needless : For Diogenes himself would be vain , to have received the honour ...
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... attend you at Aimíbury . For , I profefs you are the first Lady that ever I defired to fee , fince the first of August 1714 , and I have forgot the date when that defire grew ftrong upon me , but I know I was not then in England , elfe ...
... attend you at Aimíbury . For , I profefs you are the first Lady that ever I defired to fee , fince the first of August 1714 , and I have forgot the date when that defire grew ftrong upon me , but I know I was not then in England , elfe ...
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... attends me more or lefs , tho ' in a more peaceable manner , yet fuch as will not qualify me to live among the young and healthy : and the Duchefs , in all her youth , fpirit , and grandeur , will make a very ill nurfe , and her women ...
... attends me more or lefs , tho ' in a more peaceable manner , yet fuch as will not qualify me to live among the young and healthy : and the Duchefs , in all her youth , fpirit , and grandeur , will make a very ill nurfe , and her women ...
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... attend you , shall expect them to be literal- ly performed : though perhaps I fhall find it hard to prove your handwriting in à Court of juftice ; but that will not be much for your credit . How mifer- ably hath your Grace been mistaken ...
... attend you , shall expect them to be literal- ly performed : though perhaps I fhall find it hard to prove your handwriting in à Court of juftice ; but that will not be much for your credit . How mifer- ably hath your Grace been mistaken ...
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... attend him , and fuch a Duke invited him to command his Palace . Nam iftos reges ceteros . memorale nolo , hominum mendicabula : go read your Plautus , and obferve Strobilus vaporing after he had found the pot of gold . I will have ...
... attend him , and fuch a Duke invited him to command his Palace . Nam iftos reges ceteros . memorale nolo , hominum mendicabula : go read your Plautus , and obferve Strobilus vaporing after he had found the pot of gold . I will have ...
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