The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His CorrespondenceBohn, 1857 - 490 pages |
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... tell whether the poet's family was of Ireland or of Oxfordshire , and whether his father had in his youth been placed under a merchant in Flanders or in Lisbon . is probable , however , that the elder Pope had become a con- vert to the ...
... tell whether the poet's family was of Ireland or of Oxfordshire , and whether his father had in his youth been placed under a merchant in Flanders or in Lisbon . is probable , however , that the elder Pope had become a con- vert to the ...
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... tell me she shows me , who have no other merit than loving it wherever I find it , be it in persons of quality or pea- sants . I am not any altered from what you saw me only by some years , which give me less solicitude for myself ( as ...
... tell me she shows me , who have no other merit than loving it wherever I find it , be it in persons of quality or pea- sants . I am not any altered from what you saw me only by some years , which give me less solicitude for myself ( as ...
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... tell that Alexander Pope , whom she nursed in infancy , and affec- tionately attended for twenty - eight years , was grateful for her services . He had nearly lost his life when a child , from a wild cow that threw him down , and with ...
... tell that Alexander Pope , whom she nursed in infancy , and affec- tionately attended for twenty - eight years , was grateful for her services . He had nearly lost his life when a child , from a wild cow that threw him down , and with ...
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... tell you that Sappho ( by which heathenish name you have christened a very orthodox lady ) did not accompany me into the country . Well , you have your lady in the town still , and I have my heart in the country still , which being ...
... tell you that Sappho ( by which heathenish name you have christened a very orthodox lady ) did not accompany me into the country . Well , you have your lady in the town still , and I have my heart in the country still , which being ...
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... tell me , what are all your great dead men , but so many little living letters ? What a vast reward is here for all the ink wasted by writers , and all the blood spilt by princes ? There was in old time one Severus , a Roman emperor . I ...
... tell me , what are all your great dead men , but so many little living letters ? What a vast reward is here for all the ink wasted by writers , and all the blood spilt by princes ? There was in old time one Severus , a Roman emperor . I ...
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