 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1872 - 566 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 482 pages
...nf Riches, Aid. P. vol. ii. p. 133. This epistle was published in 1731 with the title of False Tas.. letter to the Duke, which was answered with great...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 666 pages
...shelter his temerity behind dissimulation, and endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had 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... | |
 | Dorothy Brewster - 1913 - 330 pages
...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... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - Biography - 1928 - 1452 pages
...endeavour to make that disbelieved which he never had confidence openly to deny. He wrote an explanatory true," he goes on, with involuntary bitterness, "...the * these sovereigns, who were the first to put He said, that to have ridiculed his taste, or his buildings, had been an indifferent action in another... | |
 | Christine Gerrard - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 290 pages
...(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.... | |
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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. 
