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... Vice to light , Such as a King might read , a Bishop write , Such as Sir Robert would approve— ( 150-3 ) Yet this parallel between Horace's apologia and Pope's Epistle is merely incidental , for the Roman satirist also states that he ...
... Vice to light , Such as a King might read , a Bishop write , Such as Sir Robert would approve— ( 150-3 ) Yet this parallel between Horace's apologia and Pope's Epistle is merely incidental , for the Roman satirist also states that he ...
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... Vice , which you seem naturally endu'd with , but still with a due regard to your own Safety ; and study more to reform than chastise ' , Pope replied by saying that , though willing to attempt more generalized satire , he was in some ...
... Vice , which you seem naturally endu'd with , but still with a due regard to your own Safety ; and study more to reform than chastise ' , Pope replied by saying that , though willing to attempt more generalized satire , he was in some ...
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... vice and London far , To breathe in distant fields a purer air . ( 5-6 ) Moreover , Juvenal either treats the prospect of retirement ironi- cally - as when he says ( in lines not translated by Johnson ) that ' it is something , in ...
... vice and London far , To breathe in distant fields a purer air . ( 5-6 ) Moreover , Juvenal either treats the prospect of retirement ironi- cally - as when he says ( in lines not translated by Johnson ) that ' it is something , in ...
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Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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