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... character : The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair , And sport and flutter in the Fields of Air . Know farther yet ; Whoever fair and chaste Rejects Mankind , is by some Sylph embrac'd ; ( I. 65-8 ) Some Nymphs there are , too ...
... character : The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair , And sport and flutter in the Fields of Air . Know farther yet ; Whoever fair and chaste Rejects Mankind , is by some Sylph embrac'd ; ( I. 65-8 ) Some Nymphs there are , too ...
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... character to give the Baron the scissors in the first place , that the following note on this speech , which is attributed to Pope in Warburton's edition , may not all be his : A new Character introduced in the subsequent Editions , to ...
... character to give the Baron the scissors in the first place , that the following note on this speech , which is attributed to Pope in Warburton's edition , may not all be his : A new Character introduced in the subsequent Editions , to ...
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... character , Pope expresses his con- cern that such genuine talents should be so ignobly misapplied . Indeed , the objectivity of his judgment of Atticus — which in an earlier version of these lines had been assured by the explicit refer ...
... character , Pope expresses his con- cern that such genuine talents should be so ignobly misapplied . Indeed , the objectivity of his judgment of Atticus — which in an earlier version of these lines had been assured by the explicit refer ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
Copyright | |
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