...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,...

...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...

...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...confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory 1 Epistle IV. to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington. Of the use nf Riches, Aid. P. vol. ii. p. 133....

...shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had 10 confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory...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...

...shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had 10 confidence openly to deny. He wrote an exculpatory...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...

...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...

...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 indiff erent action in another...

...in the Col. of 1751). « Johnson (Lives, ed. GB Hill, III, 153) says that Pope's letter to the Duke "was answered with great magnanimity, as by a man...accepted his excuse without believing his professions." by Hill at this time. Or without seeking any more definite explanation, we may assume mere incompatibility...

...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 had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an explanatory letter to the duke, which was answered with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted...

...(according to Johnson) entertained by Chandos himself, who apparently responded to Pope's letter to him 'with great magnanimity, as by a man who accepted his excuse without believing his profession'.7 " There are no letters between Hill and Pope between February 1731 and January 1733....