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Warton says , that Sir William Bateman “ used those very words , " assigned to Euclio on his death - bed ; and the critic adds - " No comic nor satiric writer has ever carried his descriptions of avarice or gluttony so far as what has ...
Warton says , that Sir William Bateman “ used those very words , " assigned to Euclio on his death - bed ; and the critic adds - " No comic nor satiric writer has ever carried his descriptions of avarice or gluttony so far as what has ...
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Pope's Atossa was Sara Duchess of Marl . borough , and the choice of the name was certainly felicitous ; for Sarah was a great friend of the poet's Sappho , Lady Mary — was married to a great man -and was a great writer of epistles .
Pope's Atossa was Sara Duchess of Marl . borough , and the choice of the name was certainly felicitous ; for Sarah was a great friend of the poet's Sappho , Lady Mary — was married to a great man -and was a great writer of epistles .
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Tis well — but artists ! who can paint or write , To draw the naked is your true delight . That robe of quality so struts and swells , None see what parts of nature it conceals : The exactest traits of body or of mind , We owe to models ...
Tis well — but artists ! who can paint or write , To draw the naked is your true delight . That robe of quality so struts and swells , None see what parts of nature it conceals : The exactest traits of body or of mind , We owe to models ...
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“ She makes great court to me , ” he said to Swift in 1739 ; and four years afterwards he writes to Lord Marchmont , that there were many hours he would be glad to talk to , or rather to hear , the Duchess of Marlborough .
“ She makes great court to me , ” he said to Swift in 1739 ; and four years afterwards he writes to Lord Marchmont , that there were many hours he would be glad to talk to , or rather to hear , the Duchess of Marlborough .
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In her eighty - second year ( 1742 ) she writes to Lord Marchmont :“ I am not arrived at so much philosophy as not to think torturing pain an evil ; that is the only thing I now dread , for death is unavoidable ; and I cannot find that ...
In her eighty - second year ( 1742 ) she writes to Lord Marchmont :“ I am not arrived at so much philosophy as not to think torturing pain an evil ; that is the only thing I now dread , for death is unavoidable ; and I cannot find that ...
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