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The brilliant lights and strong contrasts — the public glory and private meanness — would have afforded him a noble subject ; and the materials were at his hand . The beginning of Marlborough's enormous fortune , it is well known ...
The brilliant lights and strong contrasts — the public glory and private meanness — would have afforded him a noble subject ; and the materials were at his hand . The beginning of Marlborough's enormous fortune , it is well known ...
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When Cataline by rapine swellid his store ; When Cæsar made a noble dame a whore ; 18 200 205 210 17 John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester , famous for his wit and extravagancies in the time of Charles II . 18 The sister of Cato and the ...
When Cataline by rapine swellid his store ; When Cæsar made a noble dame a whore ; 18 200 205 210 17 John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester , famous for his wit and extravagancies in the time of Charles II . 18 The sister of Cato and the ...
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What then ? let blood and body bear the fault , Her head's untouch'd , that noble seat of thought : Such this day's doctrine — in another fit She sins with poets through pure love of wit . What has not fired her bosom or her brain ?
What then ? let blood and body bear the fault , Her head's untouch'd , that noble seat of thought : Such this day's doctrine — in another fit She sins with poets through pure love of wit . What has not fired her bosom or her brain ?
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Fain I'd in Fulvia spy the tender wife ; I cannot prove it on her for my life : And , for a noble pride , I blush no less , Instead of Berenice to think on Bess . Thus while immortal Cibber only sings ( As * and H ** y preach ) for ...
Fain I'd in Fulvia spy the tender wife ; I cannot prove it on her for my life : And , for a noble pride , I blush no less , Instead of Berenice to think on Bess . Thus while immortal Cibber only sings ( As * and H ** y preach ) for ...
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... the partiality of parliaments , and the misery of party - spirit . He was particularly eloquent against avarice in great and noble persons , of which he had indeed lived to see many miserable examples . He died in the year 1732 .
... the partiality of parliaments , and the misery of party - spirit . He was particularly eloquent against avarice in great and noble persons , of which he had indeed lived to see many miserable examples . He died in the year 1732 .
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| Title | The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Robert Carruthers |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Editor | Robert Carruthers |
| Publisher | Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Mar 9, 2010 |
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