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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... most humble respects to the Duchefs of Queensbury , and let her know that I never dine without thinking of her , although it be with fome difficulty that I can obey her when I dine with forks that have but two prongs , and when the ...
... most humble respects to the Duchefs of Queensbury , and let her know that I never dine without thinking of her , although it be with fome difficulty that I can obey her when I dine with forks that have but two prongs , and when the ...
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... most humble acknowledgements to my Lady Duchefs in return of her civility . I hear an ill thing , that he is matre pulchra filia pulchrior : I never faw her fince she was a girl , and would be angry fhe fhould excel her mother , who was ...
... most humble acknowledgements to my Lady Duchefs in return of her civility . I hear an ill thing , that he is matre pulchra filia pulchrior : I never faw her fince she was a girl , and would be angry fhe fhould excel her mother , who was ...
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... most of his predeceffors , and I confefs at the fame time that he had , fix times , a regard to my recommendation by preferring fo many of my friends in the church ; the two last acts of his favour were to add to the dignities of Dr ...
... most of his predeceffors , and I confefs at the fame time that he had , fix times , a regard to my recommendation by preferring fo many of my friends in the church ; the two last acts of his favour were to add to the dignities of Dr ...
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... - pen to be fick , I muft govern to a fecond . Yet properly speaking , there is no man alive with so much truth and respect your Grace's most obedient and devoted fervant . - LETTER VI . Aug. 28 , 1731 . You and B 4 FROM DR . SWIFT . 23.
... - pen to be fick , I muft govern to a fecond . Yet properly speaking , there is no man alive with so much truth and respect your Grace's most obedient and devoted fervant . - LETTER VI . Aug. 28 , 1731 . You and B 4 FROM DR . SWIFT . 23.
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... most past with me : my invention and judgment are perpetually at fifty - cuffs , till they have quite difab- led each other ; and the meerest trifles I ever wrote are ferious philosophical lucubrations , in comparison to what I now busy ...
... most past with me : my invention and judgment are perpetually at fifty - cuffs , till they have quite difab- led each other ; and the meerest trifles I ever wrote are ferious philosophical lucubrations , in comparison to what I now busy ...
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