Excerpt from Pope: A Novel, Vol. 3 of 3 Upon a couch, richly embroidered in worsted and 'silk, reclined a man in the prime of life. His figure was tall and well-proportioned his features were handsome and intelligent his expression was contemplative and shrewd, although it bore, at the same time, equal traces of a fiery impetuosity and of a military frankness unused to be questioned or con trolled: his manners, so far as his position enabled, them to be declared, were noble, dignified, and graceful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.