The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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... poet's part ; In raillery assume a graver air , Discreetly hide your strength , your vigour spare ; For ridicule shall frequently prevail , And cut the knot when graver reasons fail . " - FRANCIS . ] [ To the Moral Essays Warburton , in ...
... poet's part ; In raillery assume a graver air , Discreetly hide your strength , your vigour spare ; For ridicule shall frequently prevail , And cut the knot when graver reasons fail . " - FRANCIS . ] [ To the Moral Essays Warburton , in ...
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... poet evidently points to Marlborough , whose avarice he frequently con- demns . The great general did not pilfer , but he had taken presents from army contractors . Never , before or since , was the low vice of avarice united to such ...
... poet evidently points to Marlborough , whose avarice he frequently con- demns . The great general did not pilfer , but he had taken presents from army contractors . Never , before or since , was the low vice of avarice united to such ...
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... manners . He is often alluded to as the dancing peer in the Irish pasquinades of that day . ] 20 [ Warburton states that this fact was told the poet of a lady at Paris . ] " Odious ! in woollen ! ' twould a saint EP . 11 I. ] MORAL ESSAYS .
... manners . He is often alluded to as the dancing peer in the Irish pasquinades of that day . ] 20 [ Warburton states that this fact was told the poet of a lady at Paris . ] " Odious ! in woollen ! ' twould a saint EP . 11 I. ] MORAL ESSAYS .
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... poet with £ 2000 for his poem of the Universal Passion , remarking that it was the best bargain he had ever made in his life , for the poem was fairly worth £ 4000 . He also gave Young , as an appropriate lamp for a tragic author , a ...
... poet with £ 2000 for his poem of the Universal Passion , remarking that it was the best bargain he had ever made in his life , for the poem was fairly worth £ 4000 . He also gave Young , as an appropriate lamp for a tragic author , a ...
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... poet's cherished friend , Martha Blount , who had then arrived at the sober age of forty - five . Her poet was two years older . Prefixed to the first edition of the poem in 1735 was the following " ADVERTISEMENT . " The author being ...
... poet's cherished friend , Martha Blount , who had then arrived at the sober age of forty - five . Her poet was two years older . Prefixed to the first edition of the poem in 1735 was the following " ADVERTISEMENT . " The author being ...
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