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... friends endeavoured to divert him . The earl of Burlington sent him ( 1716 ) into Devonshire ; the year after , Mr Pulteney took him to Aix ; and in the following year lord Harcourt invited him to his seat , where , during his visit ...
... friends endeavoured to divert him . The earl of Burlington sent him ( 1716 ) into Devonshire ; the year after , Mr Pulteney took him to Aix ; and in the following year lord Harcourt invited him to his seat , where , during his visit ...
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... friends . Pope was now forty - four years old ; an age at which the mind begins less easily to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the ...
... friends . Pope was now forty - four years old ; an age at which the mind begins less easily to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the ...
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Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. his particular friends , or a more general friendship for mankind . At another time he said , I have known Pope these thirty years , and value myself more in his friendship than - his grief then suppressed ...
Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. his particular friends , or a more general friendship for mankind . At another time he said , I have known Pope these thirty years , and value myself more in his friendship than - his grief then suppressed ...
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