The Life of Alexander Pope: Including Extracts from His Correspondence |
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... acquaintance for Pope at the age of sixteen or seventeen , but he was a very agreeable one . The earliest instance of their correspondence ( which evinces their previous intimacy ) is a rhyming epistle addressed by Pope to Crom- well ...
... acquaintance for Pope at the age of sixteen or seventeen , but he was a very agreeable one . The earliest instance of their correspondence ( which evinces their previous intimacy ) is a rhyming epistle addressed by Pope to Crom- well ...
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... acquaintance with Swift , Bolingbroke , Harley , and Arbuth- not , strengthened the connexion . From being in his youth so much in the company of old men , Pope said he had contracted some troublesome habits . He had prematurely become ...
... acquaintance with Swift , Bolingbroke , Harley , and Arbuth- not , strengthened the connexion . From being in his youth so much in the company of old men , Pope said he had contracted some troublesome habits . He had prematurely become ...
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... acquaintances as good and pious ; for though he had not been in the inside of a church for many years , he never passed a church without pulling off his hat , which showed that he had good principles . Beau Cromwell was better in his ...
... acquaintances as good and pious ; for though he had not been in the inside of a church for many years , he never passed a church without pulling off his hat , which showed that he had good principles . Beau Cromwell was better in his ...
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... ACQUAINTANCE WITH TERESA AND MARTHA BLOUNT . THE ELEGY ON AN UNFORTUNATE LADY . IN 1709 , Pope , by the publication of his Pastorals , took his place among the poets of the English Augustan age . The age was Augustan only in the ...
... ACQUAINTANCE WITH TERESA AND MARTHA BLOUNT . THE ELEGY ON AN UNFORTUNATE LADY . IN 1709 , Pope , by the publication of his Pastorals , took his place among the poets of the English Augustan age . The age was Augustan only in the ...
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... acquaintance with you . If you design your poem for the press , no one shall be more careful in printing it , nor no one can give greater encouragement to it than , sir , your most obedient humble servant , " JACOB TONSON . " Gray's Inn ...
... acquaintance with you . If you design your poem for the press , no one shall be more careful in printing it , nor no one can give greater encouragement to it than , sir , your most obedient humble servant , " JACOB TONSON . " Gray's Inn ...
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