The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeMacmillan, 1917 - 505 pages |
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Page viii
... Queen Caroline On the Countess of Burlington cutting Paper 484 485 VII . On the Monument of the Hon . 458 486 The Looking - Glass : on Mrs. Pulteney On certain Ladies • 485 Celia 486 458 Epigram , engraved on the Collar of a Dog 486 IX ...
... Queen Caroline On the Countess of Burlington cutting Paper 484 485 VII . On the Monument of the Hon . 458 486 The Looking - Glass : on Mrs. Pulteney On certain Ladies • 485 Celia 486 458 Epigram , engraved on the Collar of a Dog 486 IX ...
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... Queen Anne's very feeble light of personal judgment was easily kept under by the resolute will of her favourites , or flickered timidly under cover of the narrowest orthodoxy . Of the first two Georges the former , indifferent to an ...
... Queen Anne's very feeble light of personal judgment was easily kept under by the resolute will of her favourites , or flickered timidly under cover of the narrowest orthodoxy . Of the first two Georges the former , indifferent to an ...
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... Queen Anne's accession commenced among the leaders of political and social life a period of eager speculation as to the contingencies which might supervene on her decease . Parties within parties , and factions within factions , battled ...
... Queen Anne's accession commenced among the leaders of political and social life a period of eager speculation as to the contingencies which might supervene on her decease . Parties within parties , and factions within factions , battled ...
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... Queen Anne ) ; but it was assuredly the most scandalous . And its peculiarity was this , that while evil speaking , even in the age of the Regency , was as a rule left as an unenvied privilege to the lowest hangers - on of literature ...
... Queen Anne ) ; but it was assuredly the most scandalous . And its peculiarity was this , that while evil speaking , even in the age of the Regency , was as a rule left as an unenvied privilege to the lowest hangers - on of literature ...
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... Queen Anne , whose childish depend- ence upon others was no secret even to herself , is addressed in strains of uncom- promising panegyric before which even the tributes of the Cavaliers to the Rose of 1 Bolingbroke , as Secretary of ...
... Queen Anne , whose childish depend- ence upon others was no secret even to herself , is addressed in strains of uncom- promising panegyric before which even the tributes of the Cavaliers to the Rose of 1 Bolingbroke , as Secretary of ...
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