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...Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is widely considered to be the best poet of the Augustan age, and perhaps English verse’s best satirist ever. Pope was mostly self-taught having been denied a formal protestant education because of his family...

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...to Captain Lemuel Gulliver On Certain Ladies Celia Prologue (To a Play for Mr. Dennis’s Benefit) Song, by a Person of Quality Verses Left by Mr. Pope On His Grotto at Twickenham On Receiving from the Right Hon. the Lady Frances Shirley a Standish and Two Pens On Beaufort House Gate at Chiswick To Mr. Thomas Southern Epigram (“My Lord complains...”) Epigram (“Yes...

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...e a gentle rod, and as gentle a hand. There is also another fish called a pope, and by some a ruffe; a fish that is not known to be in some rivers: ...

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...are and Beaumont and Fletcher, and that of Donne and Cowley, or Dryden, or Pope. I will not take upon me to determine the exact import of the promise ... ...rse will be read a hundred times where the prose is read once. We see that Pope by the power of verse alone, has contrived to render the plainest comm...

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...nstance, and the Sultan of Turkey! There were even moments when I envied the Pope of Rome—for the consideration 220 Portrait of a Lady he enjoys. I s... ...nd as they drew near the choir on the left of the entrance the voices of the Pope’s singers were borne to them over the heads of the large number of p... ...I like it in a church as little as anywhere else.” “You ought indeed to be a Pope!” Isabel exclaimed, remembering something he had referred to in Flor... ...nterest. “You seem to me to be always envying some one. Yesterday it was the Pope; today it’s poor Lord Warburton.” “My envy’s not dangerous; it would... ...ant to be them. You see it would destroy only myself.” “You’d like to be the Pope?” said Isabel. “I should love it—but I should have gone in for it ea...

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...lest passage in one of the noblest books of this century, is where the old pope glories in the trial, nay, in the partial fall and but imperfect trium...

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... him than his cassock. T o try him therefore further, he asked him, “If Mr Pope had lately published anything new?” Adams 194 Joseph Andrews answered... ... into voluntary subscriptions for their en- couragement. Thus Prior, Rowe, Pope, and some other men of genius, received large sums for their labours f... ...haritable actions done by their lords and masters; and I have heard Squire Pope, the great poet, at my lady’s table, tell stories of a man that lived ...

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... "HolyFamily"and tlie"Madotiinulel Cardellino. " Be- sides the portrait of Pope Leo X. there is a throe-quarter picture of Pope Julius II, which most ...

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the dr...

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...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope kne...

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... 3 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 1 THE VATICAN Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private ... ...e candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascade... ... of gray clouds, and rays of sun spotlighted the hills of Rome. Alfredo, the Pope’s personal secretary, knocked once and then entered the Pope’s pr... ...trine again.” Ignoring Alfredo’s concerned warning, “Sit down, Alfredo,” the Pope said, removing his glasses and motioning him toward a chair next ... ...motioning him toward a chair next to his desk, “I want to talk to you.” The Pope’s usually robust and eager mood, to which Alfredo had become accu... ... he asked with genuine concern, as he sat down. “We are fine, Alfredo.” The Pope paused and looked out the window, which was 5 J.Cross/Artemis ... ...as always used instead of I when referring to the Papacy. After serving three Popes, the use of the word I threw Alfredo momentarily, but then he qu... ...tarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish decent, ... ...the First, to do it. But Alfredo was puzzled. During the last eight years the Pope had never broken with any Vatican tradition. Why today? “Is it...

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... “that you don’t know that?” “My dear Bazin, we pagans, we men of the sword, know very well when a man is made a colonel, or maitre-de- camp, or marsh... ..., King Louis XIV ., but you will do me the favor of being afraid of me. Then listen at the smallest word that shall escape you, I will kill you as I w... ...t from my breast.” “These are all trifles! — look for something serious.” “I have had much ambition, father.” “That is the march of great minds and th... ...replied D’Artagnan. “M. Fouquet is a very good sort of a man.” 507 Dumas “Humph!” “A great politician.” Aramis made a gesture of indiffer- ence. “An ...

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...rved!” exclaimed Emile. 54 The Magic Skin “Yes,” she answered. “Just as a pope takes a new name when he is exalted above all other men, I, too, took ... ...ty snoring over there. Scum of society, give me your benediction! I am the Pope.” Raphael’s vociferations had been hitherto drowned by a thorough-bass...

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...ological vision for every changing historical epoch. It seems to me that Pope John Paul II gave the last blow to the old Christian cosmology when, ... ... would have never existed if it hadn't been for the stubborn insistence of Pope Julius II, who wanted it so bad that he sent his guards after Michela...

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...ivisions: outside the Vatican, 13 buildings in Rome and Castel Gandolfo (the Pope's summer residence) enjoy extraterritorial rights Legal system: Cano... ...unctions of a constitution National holiday: 22 October (installation day of Pope John Paul II) Branches: the Pope possesses full execu- tive, legisla... ...rs Government leader: JOHN PAUL II, Supreme Pontiff (Karol WOJTYLLA, elected Pope 16 October 1978) Suffrage: limited to cardinals less than 80 years o...

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...s feet, and kissing his unfashionable shoe-ties as if he were a Protestant Pope. She was not in the least teaching Mr. Casaubon to ask if he were good... ...the Unitarian brewer jested about the Athanasian Creed, Dr. Minchin quoted Pope’s “Essay on Man.” He objected to the rather free style of anecdote in ... ...; he should have it quite pat, cut out as neatly as a set of couplets from Pope. Embarking would be easy, but the vision of open sea that might come a... ...thing; for, unhappily, the pat opening had slipped away—even couplets from Pope may be but “fallings from us, vanishings,” when fear clutches us, and ...

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...feet, and kissing his unfash ionable shoe ties as if he were a Protestant Pope. She was not in the least teaching Mr. Casaubon to ask if he were good... ...the Unitarian brewer jested about the Athanasian Creed, Dr. Minchin quoted Pope’s “Essay on Man.” He objected to the rather free style of anecdote in ... ...; he should have it quite pat, cut out as neatly as a set of couplets from Pope. Embarking would be easy, but the vision of open sea that might come a... ...thing; for, unhappily, the pat opening had slipped away—even couplets from Pope may be but “fallings from us, vanishings,” when fear clutches us, and ...

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...ls at puberty may find The first Adam in their thought, Shut the door of the Pope’s chapel, Keep those children out. There on that scaffolding reclines ...

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...eeping assertion, not much to the credit of the sex, if true, though he has Pope to back him. ‘‘Come, Chips, cheer up like a man, and take some hot m...