The Works of Alexander Pope: LettersA. Millar [and others], 1757 |
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... speak to him , which he as often induftriously avoided . At length I found an opportunity ( as he stood under the Piazza by the Dancing - room in St. James's ) to acquaint him in the Latin tongue , that his Manufcript was fallen into my ...
... speak to him , which he as often induftriously avoided . At length I found an opportunity ( as he stood under the Piazza by the Dancing - room in St. James's ) to acquaint him in the Latin tongue , that his Manufcript was fallen into my ...
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... n Who was taught Latin in his nurse's arms , and not fuffered to hear a word of his mother tongue , till he could speak the other perfectly . them , refolved he fhould fpeak and learn nothing but MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 31.
... n Who was taught Latin in his nurse's arms , and not fuffered to hear a word of his mother tongue , till he could speak the other perfectly . them , refolved he fhould fpeak and learn nothing but MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 31.
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... speak first of the While , as it is the firft " of all Play - things . I will have it exactly to cor- " refpond with the ancient Fiftula , and accordingly " to be compofed feptem paribus disjuncta cicutis . " I heartily wish a diligent ...
... speak first of the While , as it is the firft " of all Play - things . I will have it exactly to cor- " refpond with the ancient Fiftula , and accordingly " to be compofed feptem paribus disjuncta cicutis . " I heartily wish a diligent ...
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... speak with veneration of an- " cient Mufick . If this Lyre in my unskilful hands 66 can perform fuch wonders , what must it not have " done in those of a Timotheus or a Terpander ? " Having faid this , he retired with the utmost Exulta ...
... speak with veneration of an- " cient Mufick . If this Lyre in my unskilful hands 66 can perform fuch wonders , what must it not have " done in those of a Timotheus or a Terpander ? " Having faid this , he retired with the utmost Exulta ...
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... the fober man " for what the madman did , thereby making them two perfons ; * which is somewhat explained by our way of speaking in Eng- VOL . VII . E nelius told Martin that a fhoulder of mutton was an MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 49.
... the fober man " for what the madman did , thereby making them two perfons ; * which is somewhat explained by our way of speaking in Eng- VOL . VII . E nelius told Martin that a fhoulder of mutton was an MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS . 49.
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