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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... grow weary of each other , you will be able to pass the rest of your wineless life , in eafe and plenty , with the additional triumphal comfort of never having receiv'd a penny from those taftelefs ungrateful people from whom you ...
... grow weary of each other , you will be able to pass the rest of your wineless life , in eafe and plenty , with the additional triumphal comfort of never having receiv'd a penny from those taftelefs ungrateful people from whom you ...
Page 18
... grows too long to please me : I prove that Poets are the fittest persons to be treasurers and managers to great perfons , from their virtue , and contempt of money , & c . Pray , why did you not get a new heel to your shoe ? unless you ...
... grows too long to please me : I prove that Poets are the fittest persons to be treasurers and managers to great perfons , from their virtue , and contempt of money , & c . Pray , why did you not get a new heel to your shoe ? unless you ...
Page 22
... provided you live in the country Have you no fcheme either in verfe or profe ? The Duchefs fhould keep you at hard meat , and by that means force you to write ; and so I have done with you . 1 Madam , Since I began to grow old , I.
... provided you live in the country Have you no fcheme either in verfe or profe ? The Duchefs fhould keep you at hard meat , and by that means force you to write ; and so I have done with you . 1 Madam , Since I began to grow old , I.
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... grow old , I have found all ladies become inconftant , without any reproach from their confcience . If I wait on you , I declare that one of your women ( which ever it is that has designs upon a Chaplain ) must be my nurse , if I happen ...
... grow old , I have found all ladies become inconftant , without any reproach from their confcience . If I wait on you , I declare that one of your women ( which ever it is that has designs upon a Chaplain ) must be my nurse , if I happen ...
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... grow , you will more and more fub- mit . Thus I knew myself on the secure fide , and it was a mere piece of good manners to infert that claufe , of which you have taken the ad- vantage . But as I cannot forbear informing your Grace that ...
... grow , you will more and more fub- mit . Thus I knew myself on the secure fide , and it was a mere piece of good manners to infert that claufe , of which you have taken the ad- vantage . But as I cannot forbear informing your Grace that ...
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