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in Fielding’s Tom Jones, is designed for the author’s friend, Ralph Allen, of Bristol.

Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame,

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”


Pope: Epilogue to Sat. i. 135, 136.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Alligator Pears (the fruit of Persea gratissima)
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