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Jhumjhum Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

meaning of a line of Epistle To Dr Arbuthnot

0 00 29600Yet wants the honour, injur'd, to defend;02br
00 29700Who tells what'er you think, whate'er you say,02br
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00 29800And, if he lie not, must at least betray:02br
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05001font00Who to the Dean, and silver bell can swear,02font02br
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00 30000And sees at Cannons what was never there;02br
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00 30100Who reads, but with a lust to misapply,02br
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00 30200Make satire a lampoon, and fiction, lie.02br
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00What does this line exactly mean?02br
00I am giving the link of the 05102br
0250hrefhttp://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1633.html#302c 299251hrefhttp://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1633.htmlcwhole epistle
  

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0 As so often in Pope, you have to know about his social world. Here is a reference: Dean: "[Pope] See the Epistle to the Earl of Burlington" (01i 00Moral Essay02i 00 IV, 141-50). Pope's enemies had charged that Timon's Villa was the Duke of Chandos' estate, Cannons (line 300).

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0 As so often in Pope, you have to know about his social world. Here is a reference: Dean: "[Pope] See the Epistle to the Earl of Burlington" (01i00Moral Essay02i00 IV, 141-50). Pope's enemies had charged that Timon's Villa was the Duke of Chandos' estate, Cannons (line 300). The "dean" and "silver bel" are both mentioned in the description in 01i00Moral Essa
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