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Remarks on Mr Pope’s Rape of the Lock choose

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[UK] J. Dennis Letter III Remarks on Mr Pope’s Rape of the Lock (1728) 16: The author [...] represents her likewise a fine, modest, well-bred lady. [...] And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg.
at ramp, n.1
[UK] J. Dennis Letter III Remarks on Mr Pope’s Rape of the Lock (1728) 16: The author [...] represents her likewise a fine, modest, well-bred lady. [...] And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg.
at tom rig (n.) under tom, n.5
[UK] J. Dennis Letter III Remarks on Mr Pope’s Rape of the Lock (1728) 16: The author [...] represents her likewise a fine, modest, well-bred lady. [...] And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg.
at tom rig (n.) under tom, n.12
[UK] J. Dennis Letter VI Remarks on Mr Pope’s Rape of the Lock 45: In the Beginning of it there is a rampant Scuffle, which I suppose our Author took from the Rankness of a Buttock-Ball.
at buttock-ball, n.
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