The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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... very small space ; their real value consists in their poetical beauties , their finely - drawn characters , rich imagery , taste , and moral reflection . ] 1 11 3 EPISTLE I. ΤΟ SIR RICHARD TEMPLE , LORD COBHAM 2 MORAL ESSAYS .
... very small space ; their real value consists in their poetical beauties , their finely - drawn characters , rich imagery , taste , and moral reflection . ] 1 11 3 EPISTLE I. ΤΟ SIR RICHARD TEMPLE , LORD COBHAM 2 MORAL ESSAYS .
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... tastes were low and frivolous , and most of the time which he could save from public business was spent in racing , card - playing , and cock- fighting . " - Macaulay's History of England . This fortunate man , who had rendered himself ...
... tastes were low and frivolous , and most of the time which he could save from public business was spent in racing , card - playing , and cock- fighting . " - Macaulay's History of England . This fortunate man , who had rendered himself ...
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... taste , Critiqued your wine , and analysed your meat , Yet on plain pudding deign'd at home to eat : So Philomedé , lecturing all mankind On the soft passion , and the taste refined , The address , the delicacy - stoops at once , And ...
... taste , Critiqued your wine , and analysed your meat , Yet on plain pudding deign'd at home to eat : So Philomedé , lecturing all mankind On the soft passion , and the taste refined , The address , the delicacy - stoops at once , And ...
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... taste of follies , with our scorn of fools : Reserve with frankness , art with truth allied , Courage with softness , modesty with pride ; Fix'd principles , with fancy ever new ; Shakes all together , and produces - you ! 280 Be this a ...
... taste of follies , with our scorn of fools : Reserve with frankness , art with truth allied , Courage with softness , modesty with pride ; Fix'd principles , with fancy ever new ; Shakes all together , and produces - you ! 280 Be this a ...
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... taste and simplicity . Those were her personal charms , for her face was regular and agreeable rather than beautiful ; and those charms she retained , with little diminution , to her death , at the age of seventy - nine , " July , 1767 ...
... taste and simplicity . Those were her personal charms , for her face was regular and agreeable rather than beautiful ; and those charms she retained , with little diminution , to her death , at the age of seventy - nine , " July , 1767 ...
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