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Page 58
... desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of controul , and pride disdainful of superiority . He hated monarchs in the state , and prelates in the church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey . It is to be suspected ...
... desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of controul , and pride disdainful of superiority . He hated monarchs in the state , and prelates in the church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey . It is to be suspected ...
Page 240
... desire . My Virgil succeeds in the world beyond its desert or my expectation . You know the profits might have been more ; but neither my conscience nor my honour would suffer me to take them : but I never can repent of my constancy ...
... desire . My Virgil succeeds in the world beyond its desert or my expectation . You know the profits might have been more ; but neither my conscience nor my honour would suffer me to take them : but I never can repent of my constancy ...
Page 325
... desire an explanation , declared that Hooke had misunderstood him . Bolingbroke hated Warburton , who had drawn his pupil from him ; and a little before Pope's death they had a dispute , from which they parted with mutual aversion ...
... desire an explanation , declared that Hooke had misunderstood him . Bolingbroke hated Warburton , who had drawn his pupil from him ; and a little before Pope's death they had a dispute , from which they parted with mutual aversion ...
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