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[ " Close be your language ; let your sense be clear , Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear ; From grave to jovial you must change with art , Now play the critic's , now the poet's part ; In raillery assume a graver air ...
[ " Close be your language ; let your sense be clear , Nor with a weight of words fatigue the ear ; From grave to jovial you must change with art , Now play the critic's , now the poet's part ; In raillery assume a graver air ...
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... of military accounts and supplies — but the 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 .
... of military accounts and supplies — but the 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 .
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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 . I. ] 11 MORAL ESSAYS .
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 . I. ] 11 MORAL ESSAYS .
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Young dedi . cated his tragedy of Revenge to Wharton , in a style of fulsome adulation , and the duke is said to have presented the poet with £ 2000 for his poem of the Universal Passion , remarking that it was the best bargain he had ...
Young dedi . cated his tragedy of Revenge to Wharton , in a style of fulsome adulation , and the duke is said to have presented the poet with £ 2000 for his poem of the Universal Passion , remarking that it was the best bargain he had ...
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6 [ The lady to whom this Epistle is addressed , was the 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 ...
6 [ The lady to whom this Epistle is addressed , was the 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 ...
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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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