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Page 64
... Pride ' . In the five - canto version it could just conceivably be taken to mean that if Belinda were to show ' grace- ful Ease , and Sweetness void of Pride ' then her faults would be hidden by these qualities . But she is clearly ...
... Pride ' . In the five - canto version it could just conceivably be taken to mean that if Belinda were to show ' grace- ful Ease , and Sweetness void of Pride ' then her faults would be hidden by these qualities . But she is clearly ...
Page 89
... pride to be associated with their whole undertaking , Pope's lines anticipate not only the ex- plicit mention of ' pride ' ( according to Christian ethics , the car- dinal sin ) in the following verse - paragraph , but also the searing ...
... pride to be associated with their whole undertaking , Pope's lines anticipate not only the ex- plicit mention of ' pride ' ( according to Christian ethics , the car- dinal sin ) in the following verse - paragraph , but also the searing ...
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... pride and malevolence , is at the beginning of the second book likened to an eastern potentate . Certainly the pride that Atticus so clearly displays not only links him with Bufo and the explicitly Satanic aspects of Sporus , but ...
... pride and malevolence , is at the beginning of the second book likened to an eastern potentate . Certainly the pride that Atticus so clearly displays not only links him with Bufo and the explicitly Satanic aspects of Sporus , but ...
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Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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