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... Bolingbroke , composed with all the skill and industry of a professed author . It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit ; he that has once studiously formed a style , rarely writes afterwards with complete ease . Pope ...
... Bolingbroke , composed with all the skill and industry of a professed author . It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit ; he that has once studiously formed a style , rarely writes afterwards with complete ease . Pope ...
Page 120
... Bolingbroke , he had not intentionally attacked religion ; and Bolingbroke , if he meant to make him , without his own consent , an instrument of mischief , found him now engaged , with his eyes open , on the side of truth . It is known ...
... Bolingbroke , he had not intentionally attacked religion ; and Bolingbroke , if he meant to make him , without his own consent , an instrument of mischief , found him now engaged , with his eyes open , on the side of truth . It is known ...
Page 134
... Bolingbroke and Lord Marchmont , he saw his favourite Martha Blount at the bottom of the terrace , and asked Lord Bolingbroke to go and hand her up . Bolingbroke , not liking his errand , crossed his legs and sat still ; but Lord ...
... Bolingbroke and Lord Marchmont , he saw his favourite Martha Blount at the bottom of the terrace , and asked Lord Bolingbroke to go and hand her up . Bolingbroke , not liking his errand , crossed his legs and sat still ; but Lord ...
Page 135
... Bolingbroke , and , if he should not be living , to the Earl of Marchmont , undoubtedly expecting them to be proud ... Boling- broke by a kind of posthumous offence . The political pamphlet called " The Patriot King " had been put into ...
... Bolingbroke , and , if he should not be living , to the Earl of Marchmont , undoubtedly expecting them to be proud ... Boling- broke by a kind of posthumous offence . The political pamphlet called " The Patriot King " had been put into ...
Page 136
... Bolingbroke , however , was not yet satisfied . his thirst of vengeance excited him to blast the memory of the man over whom he had wept in his last struggles ; and he employed Mallet , another friend of Pope , to tell the tale to the ...
... Bolingbroke , however , was not yet satisfied . his thirst of vengeance excited him to blast the memory of the man over whom he had wept in his last struggles ; and he employed Mallet , another friend of Pope , to tell the tale to the ...
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