The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author ... |
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But he shone in courts as well as in camps ; he was called up when the nation fell
in labour of this Revolution ; 5 and was a gossip at her christening , with the
bishop and the ladies .. As to his birth , it is true he pretendeth no relation either to
...
But he shone in courts as well as in camps ; he was called up when the nation fell
in labour of this Revolution ; 5 and was a gossip at her christening , with the
bishop and the ladies .. As to his birth , it is true he pretendeth no relation either to
...
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For if Solon said well , ultima semper Expectanda dies homini : dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo supremague funera debet " f no man be called happy till his
death , surely much less can any one , till then , be pronounced a hero : this
species ...
For if Solon said well , ultima semper Expectanda dies homini : dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo supremague funera debet " f no man be called happy till his
death , surely much less can any one , till then , be pronounced a hero : this
species ...
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But what puts it beyond all question , is a passage in a very warm treatise , in
which Mr. D. was also concerned , price two - pence , called , A true character of
Mr. Pope and his Writings , printed for S. Popping , 1716 ; in the tenth page
whereof ...
But what puts it beyond all question , is a passage in a very warm treatise , in
which Mr. D. was also concerned , price two - pence , called , A true character of
Mr. Pope and his Writings , printed for S. Popping , 1716 ; in the tenth page
whereof ...
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Tibbald quotes a rare passage from him in Mist's Journal of March 16 , 1728 ,
concerning a straunge and marvallous beaste , called Sagittayre , which ho
would have Shakspeare to mean rather than Teucer , the archer celebrated by
Homer .
Tibbald quotes a rare passage from him in Mist's Journal of March 16 , 1728 ,
concerning a straunge and marvallous beaste , called Sagittayre , which ho
would have Shakspeare to mean rather than Teucer , the archer celebrated by
Homer .
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The thought of these four verses is founded in a poem of our author's of a very
early date ( namely , written at fourteen years old , and soon after printed , ) to the
author of a poem called Successio . Ver . 198. Gray - goose weapon . ] Alluding
to ...
The thought of these four verses is founded in a poem of our author's of a very
early date ( namely , written at fourteen years old , and soon after printed , ) to the
author of a poem called Successio . Ver . 198. Gray - goose weapon . ] Alluding
to ...
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Страница 6 - And curses wit, and poetry, and Pope. Friend to my life! (which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song) What drop or nostrum can this plague remove ? Or which must end me, a fool's wrath or love ? A dire dilemma! either way I'm sped, If foes, they write, — if friends, they read me dead.
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