The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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... who was an active man , when he retired into a convent ; Philip , who was a man of the closet , when he gave the battle of St. Quentin . " ] Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat , Pride guides EP . I. ] MORAL ESSAYS .
... who was an active man , when he retired into a convent ; Philip , who was a man of the closet , when he gave the battle of St. Quentin . " ] Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat , Pride guides EP . I. ] MORAL ESSAYS .
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... gave these her last orders with her dying breath . 250 " I give and I devise ( old Euclio said. 66 ' NOT THAT I CANNOT PART WITH THAT ! " - AND DIED . 12 [ EP . I. MORAL ESSAYS . EPISTLE II: To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women.
... gave these her last orders with her dying breath . 250 " I give and I devise ( old Euclio said. 66 ' NOT THAT I CANNOT PART WITH THAT ! " - AND DIED . 12 [ EP . I. MORAL ESSAYS . EPISTLE II: To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women.
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... gave room for scandal by the large sums he spent in building , and by the style of magnificence in which he lived . He is said to have spent £ 200,000 on his house at Canons , near Edgeware . He had also begun the erection of a great ...
... gave room for scandal by the large sums he spent in building , and by the style of magnificence in which he lived . He is said to have spent £ 200,000 on his house at Canons , near Edgeware . He had also begun the erection of a great ...
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... gave Young , as an appropriate lamp for a tragic author , a human skull , in which he had fixed a candle . It must have been by this light , that Young afterwards com- posed his Night Thoughts ! MRS . OLDFIELD . Ver . 246. Odious ! in ...
... gave Young , as an appropriate lamp for a tragic author , a human skull , in which he had fixed a candle . It must have been by this light , that Young afterwards com- posed his Night Thoughts ! MRS . OLDFIELD . Ver . 246. Odious ! in ...
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... Gave alms at Easter , in a Christian trim , And made a widow happy , for a whim . 55 Why then declare good - nature is her scorn , When ' tis by that alone she can be borne ? 60 print for fragrant . The substitution of Sappho for Flavia ...
... Gave alms at Easter , in a Christian trim , And made a widow happy , for a whim . 55 Why then declare good - nature is her scorn , When ' tis by that alone she can be borne ? 60 print for fragrant . The substitution of Sappho for Flavia ...
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