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" ... and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the duke, which was answered with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excuse without believing his professions. "
London, by David Hughson - Page 418
by Edward Pugh - 1809
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The Works of Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...no man was satisfied ; and he was at last reduced to shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never...accepted his excuse, without believing his professions. He said, that to have ridiculed his taste, or his buildings, had been an indifferent action in another...
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Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...he tried all means of escaping. He was at last reduced to shelter his temerity behind dissimulation. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke, which...accepted his excuse without believing his professions.' I. 300. And sees at Cannons what was never there. On the estate of Canons, near Harrow and Edgware,...
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Satires and Epistles

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 pages
...he tried all means of escaping. He was at last reduced to shelter his temerity behind dissimulation. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke, which...accepted his excuse without believing his professions.' 1. 300. And sees at Cannons what was never there. On the estate of Canons, near Harrow and Edgware,...
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The Works of ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 570 pages
...Johnson, who had evidently seen it, we know that Pope gave a wrong epitome of its contents : " Pope wrote an exculpatory letter to the duke which was...accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He said that to have ridiculed his taste or his buildings had been an indifferent action in another...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 8

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 576 pages
...of Johnson, who had evidently seen it, we know that Pope gave a wrong epitome of its contents: "Pope wrote an exculpatory letter to the duke which was answered with great magnanimity, as by a man wlio accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He said that to have ridiculed his taste...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Correspondence

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 660 pages
...Johnson, who had evidently seen it, we know that Pope gave a wrong epitome of its contents : " Pope wrote an exculpatory letter to the duke which was answered with great magnanimity, ns liy a man who accepted his excuse without believing his professions. Ho said that to have ridiculed...
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Hogarth's works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures by J ...

William Hogarth - 1874 - 528 pages
...satisfied ; and he was at last reduced to shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavoured to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence...the Duke, which was answered with great magnanimity by a man who accepted his excuse without believing his professions. He said, that to have ridiculed...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...no man was satisfied ; and he was at last reduced to shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never...man who accepted his excuse without believing his profecsions. He said that to have ridiculed his taste, or his buildings, had been an indifferent action...
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Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 pages
...that" gracious Chandos is beloved at sight." This exculpation, says Johnson, was received by the duke " with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excuse, without believing his professions." Nobody, in fact, believed, and even Warburton let out the secret by a comic oversight. Pope had prophesied...
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Satires and Epistles

Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 pages
...he tried all means of escaping. He was at last reduced to shelter his temerity behind dissimulation. He wrote an exculpatory letter to the Duke, which...accepted his excuse without believing his professions/ 1. 300. And sees at Cannons what was never there. On the estate of Canons, near Harrow and Edgware,...
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