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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Page 12
... best walker in this town and five miles round . I writ lately to Mr. Pope : I wish you had a little Villakin in his neigh- bourhood ; but you are yet too volatile , and any Lady with a coach and fix horfes would carry you to Japan . WH ...
... best walker in this town and five miles round . I writ lately to Mr. Pope : I wish you had a little Villakin in his neigh- bourhood ; but you are yet too volatile , and any Lady with a coach and fix horfes would carry you to Japan . WH ...
Page 19
... best ? My Groom tells me that he likes your park , but your house is too little . Can the Parfon of the parish play at back- gammon , and hold his tongue ? is any one of your Women a good nurse , if I should fancy myfelf fick for four ...
... best ? My Groom tells me that he likes your park , but your house is too little . Can the Parfon of the parish play at back- gammon , and hold his tongue ? is any one of your Women a good nurse , if I should fancy myfelf fick for four ...
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... best company of Eng- 1 ) Wagstaff's Dialogues of polite Conversation , pu- blifhed in his life time . 2 ) An imperfect thing of this kind , called Directions to fervants in general , has been published fince his death . - land . I wish ...
... best company of Eng- 1 ) Wagstaff's Dialogues of polite Conversation , pu- blifhed in his life time . 2 ) An imperfect thing of this kind , called Directions to fervants in general , has been published fince his death . - land . I wish ...
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... best find hints for himself : though it is poffible that fometimes a friend may give you a lucky one juft fuited to your own imagination . But all this is al- most past with me : my invention and judgment are perpetually at fifty ...
... best find hints for himself : though it is poffible that fometimes a friend may give you a lucky one juft fuited to your own imagination . But all this is al- most past with me : my invention and judgment are perpetually at fifty ...
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... it foon , for I add two lines every week , and - - 4 ) This has been published , and is amongst the best of his poems . 1 blot out four , and alter eight . I FROM DR . SWIFT . 27 Defires his friend to correct the Effay Homer,
... it foon , for I add two lines every week , and - - 4 ) This has been published , and is amongst the best of his poems . 1 blot out four , and alter eight . I FROM DR . SWIFT . 27 Defires his friend to correct the Effay Homer,
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