The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks, Volume 6J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... pleased to send me , and with it your obliging letter , which deserves my particular acknowledgment : for , next to the pleasure of enjoying the company of so good a friend , the welcomest thing to me is to hear from him . I expected to ...
... pleased to send me , and with it your obliging letter , which deserves my particular acknowledgment : for , next to the pleasure of enjoying the company of so good a friend , the welcomest thing to me is to hear from him . I expected to ...
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... pleased to hear truth as a young lady . From the moment one sets up for an author , one * This friendly warning was not given without occasion , as ap- pears from Pope's own account of himself : " The gayest valetudinaire , Most ...
... pleased to hear truth as a young lady . From the moment one sets up for an author , one * This friendly warning was not given without occasion , as ap- pears from Pope's own account of himself : " The gayest valetudinaire , Most ...
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... pleased to tell me of myself , I treat it , as you who are in the secret , treat com- mon news , as groundless reports of things at a distance ; which I , who look into the true springs of the affair , in my own breast , know to have no ...
... pleased to tell me of myself , I treat it , as you who are in the secret , treat com- mon news , as groundless reports of things at a distance ; which I , who look into the true springs of the affair , in my own breast , know to have no ...
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... humanity they seldom ac- company each other . But they might keep company or not , just as they pleased , for the writer was gone in search of witticisms . Warburton . though they seldom accompany each other in other men , 26 LETTERS TO ...
... humanity they seldom ac- company each other . But they might keep company or not , just as they pleased , for the writer was gone in search of witticisms . Warburton . though they seldom accompany each other in other men , 26 LETTERS TO ...
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... letter , it might be as long as I could wish your letters always were . I do not wonder you have hitherto found some difficulty ( as you are pleased to say ) in writing to me , since you have always chosen the task of 34 LETTERS TO AND.
... letter , it might be as long as I could wish your letters always were . I do not wonder you have hitherto found some difficulty ( as you are pleased to say ) in writing to me , since you have always chosen the task of 34 LETTERS TO AND.
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