The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1854 - 363 pages |
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... the Characters of Mr. Pope and Mr. Dryden 239 Declaration , by the Author .. 247 BOOK I .. 248 BOOK II ..... 271 BOOK III BOOK IV 305 329 Index of Persons and Matters 361 EPISTLE TO DR . ARBUTHNOT , BEING THE PROLOGUE TO CONTENTS . vii.
... the Characters of Mr. Pope and Mr. Dryden 239 Declaration , by the Author .. 247 BOOK I .. 248 BOOK II ..... 271 BOOK III BOOK IV 305 329 Index of Persons and Matters 361 EPISTLE TO DR . ARBUTHNOT , BEING THE PROLOGUE TO CONTENTS . vii.
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... person , morals , and family ; whereof , to those who know me not , a truer information may be requisite . Being divided be- tween the necessity to say something of myself , and my own laziness to undertake so awkward a task , I thought ...
... person , morals , and family ; whereof , to those who know me not , a truer information may be requisite . Being divided be- tween the necessity to say something of myself , and my own laziness to undertake so awkward a task , I thought ...
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... person and a king ) His very ministers who spied them first ( Some say his queen ) was forc'd to speak or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a sorer case , When every coxcomb perks them in my 4 The London Journal . face ? 5 An ...
... person and a king ) His very ministers who spied them first ( Some say his queen ) was forc'd to speak or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a sorer case , When every coxcomb perks them in my 4 The London Journal . face ? 5 An ...
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... person pay their court : I cough like Horace ; and , though lean , am short ; Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high , Such Ovid's nose , and " Sir ! you have an eye- . " Go on , obliging creatures ! make me see All that disgrac❜d ...
... person pay their court : I cough like Horace ; and , though lean , am short ; Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high , Such Ovid's nose , and " Sir ! you have an eye- . " Go on , obliging creatures ! make me see All that disgrac❜d ...
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... person , and the pictur'd shape ; Abuse on all he lov'd , or lov'd him , spread , A friend in exile , or a father dead ; 1 The whisper , that , to greatness still too near , Perhaps yet vibrates on his sovereign's ear— Welcome for thee ...
... person , and the pictur'd shape ; Abuse on all he lov'd , or lov'd him , spread , A friend in exile , or a father dead ; 1 The whisper , that , to greatness still too near , Perhaps yet vibrates on his sovereign's ear— Welcome for thee ...
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