The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence |
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... hope , you will have an account of , or else we may have great cause to complain of Mr. A.'s , or his correspondent's negligence , since he promised my father to write ( as he pressed him to do ) some time before your journey . He has ...
... hope , you will have an account of , or else we may have great cause to complain of Mr. A.'s , or his correspondent's negligence , since he promised my father to write ( as he pressed him to do ) some time before your journey . He has ...
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... hope I have not wanted care to imitate . " The versification was his chief object , and he elaborated it with such attention to the sweet- ness he prized in Virgil and Waller , and with such exactness and nicety in the construction of ...
... hope I have not wanted care to imitate . " The versification was his chief object , and he elaborated it with such attention to the sweet- ness he prized in Virgil and Waller , and with such exactness and nicety in the construction of ...
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... hope that his critic's " great , vigorous , and active mind would not be able to destroy his little , tender , and crazy carcase . " The " infallible Pope " proceeded , and letters were interchanged full of forced wit and hollow ...
... hope that his critic's " great , vigorous , and active mind would not be able to destroy his little , tender , and crazy carcase . " The " infallible Pope " proceeded , and letters were interchanged full of forced wit and hollow ...
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... hope you will attribute it to the natural openness of my temper , which hardly knows how to show respect , where it feels affection . I would love my friend , as my mis- tress , without ceremony ; and hope a little rough usage sometimes ...
... hope you will attribute it to the natural openness of my temper , which hardly knows how to show respect , where it feels affection . I would love my friend , as my mis- tress , without ceremony ; and hope a little rough usage sometimes ...
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... hope , when you shall coolly consider the many thousand instances of our being deluded by the females , since that great original of Adam by Eve , you will have a more favourable thought of the undesigning error of , your faithful ...
... hope , when you shall coolly consider the many thousand instances of our being deluded by the females , since that great original of Adam by Eve , you will have a more favourable thought of the undesigning error of , your faithful ...
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