Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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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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... friend . ” ' It may teach mankind the uncertainty of worldly friendships , to know that Young , either by surviving those he loved , or by outliving their affections , could only recollect the names of two friends , his house- keeper ...
... friend . ” ' It may teach mankind the uncertainty of worldly friendships , to know that Young , either by surviving those he loved , or by outliving their affections , could only recollect the names of two friends , his house- keeper ...
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