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... Pride " ( Creech mentions pride again when he writes " they love what decks their Pride " ) . Pope goes on to write : Unnumber'd Treasures ope at once , and here The various Off'rings of the World appear . There is much about treasures ...
... Pride " ( Creech mentions pride again when he writes " they love what decks their Pride " ) . Pope goes on to write : Unnumber'd Treasures ope at once , and here The various Off'rings of the World appear . There is much about treasures ...
Page 77
... Pride , inheriting no Strife , Nor marrying Discord in a Noble Wife , [ 392-393 ] a couplet that seems to refer back to the three great characters occurring earlier in the epistle . Bufo was proud ; Atticus had mar- ried a noble wife ...
... Pride , inheriting no Strife , Nor marrying Discord in a Noble Wife , [ 392-393 ] a couplet that seems to refer back to the three great characters occurring earlier in the epistle . Bufo was proud ; Atticus had mar- ried a noble wife ...
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... Pride , in reas'ning Pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . To reduce man's pride , Pope asks ironic questions : He , who thro ' vast immensity can pierce , See worlds on worlds compose one universe ...
... Pride , in reas'ning Pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . To reduce man's pride , Pope asks ironic questions : He , who thro ' vast immensity can pierce , See worlds on worlds compose one universe ...
Contents
The Rape of a Myth | 7 |
The Wild Heap and the Ordered Frame | 33 |
Manilius Creech and An Essay on Man | 105 |
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