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That the Essay on Man was begun, and a great part of it completed, several years before Lord Bolingbroke had commenced to write on the subject. 2. That Lord Bolingbroke con- tinued to write his philosophical work long after Pope had published his Essay. 3. That his Lordship has himself explicitly stated, that the Poem of Pope was an original, and not imitated 1 Roscoe'i Life of Pope, p. 394, et seq. d by Google lxXXviii MEMOIR OF POPE. from any other author. 4. That the occasional resemblances ...that are found between these works may, therefore, rather be considered as imitations of Pope by Lord Bolingbroke, than as imitations of his Lordship by Pope. In 1732, Pope had to lament the death of the amiable Gay, one of the friends whom he most sincerely loved; and to increase his sorrow, he now beheld his aged mother sinking into the grave by a gradual decay. To Martha Blount he writes thus : " Nov. 1732. " Your letter dated at nine a clock on Tuesday (night, I suppose) has sunk me quite. Yesterday I hoped ; and yesterday I sent you a line or two for our poor friend Gray, inclosed in a few words to you ; about twelve or one o'clock you should have had it.
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