The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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... lady dressing her silver locks with pink , and ordering her coffin to be lined with white quilled satin with gold fringes ; or Counsellor Vernon retiring to enjoy himself with five thousand a - year , which he had got , and returning to ...
... lady dressing her silver locks with pink , and ordering her coffin to be lined with white quilled satin with gold fringes ; or Counsellor Vernon retiring to enjoy himself with five thousand a - year , which he had got , and returning to ...
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... her salary to three hundred guineas per annum , with her usual benefit , which , upon an average for several years , at least doubled that sum . EPISTLE II . ΤΟ A LADY . OF THE CHARACTERS 20 20 [ EP . I. MORAL ESSAYS .
... her salary to three hundred guineas per annum , with her usual benefit , which , upon an average for several years , at least doubled that sum . EPISTLE II . ΤΟ A LADY . OF THE CHARACTERS 20 20 [ EP . I. MORAL ESSAYS .
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Alexander Pope Robert Carruthers. EPISTLE II . ΤΟ A LADY . OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN . [ 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 ...
Alexander Pope Robert Carruthers. EPISTLE II . ΤΟ A LADY . OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN . [ 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 ...
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... ladies affected to be drawn , and sometimes one lady in them all . The poet's politeness and complaisance to the sex is observable in this instance , amongst others , that whereas in the characters of men he has sometimes made use of ...
... ladies affected to be drawn , and sometimes one lady in them all . The poet's politeness and complaisance to the sex is observable in this instance , amongst others , that whereas in the characters of men he has sometimes made use of ...
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... Ladies , like variegated tulips , show , 40 ' Tis to their changes half their charms we owe ; Fine by defect , and ... Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( whose negligence in dress is often coarsely alluded to by Pope and Walpole ) , but it ...
... Ladies , like variegated tulips , show , 40 ' Tis to their changes half their charms we owe ; Fine by defect , and ... Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ( whose negligence in dress is often coarsely alluded to by Pope and Walpole ) , but it ...
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