The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volumes 1-2Phillips, Sampson, 1852 - 616 pages |
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... persons . Mr. Wycherley was among the first au- thors of established reputation who contributed to advance his fame , and with whom he for some time lived in the most unreserved intimacy . This poet in nis old age , conceived a design ...
... persons . Mr. Wycherley was among the first au- thors of established reputation who contributed to advance his fame , and with whom he for some time lived in the most unreserved intimacy . This poet in nis old age , conceived a design ...
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... person from whom she was removed . This young lady was of very high birth , possessed an opulent fortune , and under the tutorage of an uncle , who gave her an education suitable to her titles and pretensions . She was es- teemed a ...
... person from whom she was removed . This young lady was of very high birth , possessed an opulent fortune , and under the tutorage of an uncle , who gave her an education suitable to her titles and pretensions . She was es- teemed a ...
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... persons of distinction , who several years before Mr. Addison's decease , approved those verses denominated a libel , but which were , it is said , a friendly rebuke , sent privately , in our author's own hand , to Mr. Addison himself ...
... persons of distinction , who several years before Mr. Addison's decease , approved those verses denominated a libel , but which were , it is said , a friendly rebuke , sent privately , in our author's own hand , to Mr. Addison himself ...
Page xx
... persons whose affection to the Whig interest was suspected , yet was his name never called in question . While he was in favour with the Duke of Buckingham , the Lords Bolingbroke , Oxford , and Harcourt , Dr. Swift , and Mr. Prior , he ...
... persons whose affection to the Whig interest was suspected , yet was his name never called in question . While he was in favour with the Duke of Buckingham , the Lords Bolingbroke , Oxford , and Harcourt , Dr. Swift , and Mr. Prior , he ...
Page xxvii
... person stig- matized as a dunce was genuinely so . Something must be allowed to personal resentment : Mr. Pope was a man of keen passions ; he felt an injury strong- ly , retained a long remembrance of it , and could very pungently ...
... person stig- matized as a dunce was genuinely so . Something must be allowed to personal resentment : Mr. Pope was a man of keen passions ; he felt an injury strong- ly , retained a long remembrance of it , and could very pungently ...
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