The Papers of a Critic: Memoir. Pope's writings. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Swift, &cJ. Murray, 1875 |
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... fortune send us the right road ! Here's a soaking shower coming ! ecod ! it rolls be- tween the mountains as if it would drown us . At last we come , wet and weary , to the long - wished - for inn . What have you for dinner ? Truly ...
... fortune send us the right road ! Here's a soaking shower coming ! ecod ! it rolls be- tween the mountains as if it would drown us . At last we come , wet and weary , to the long - wished - for inn . What have you for dinner ? Truly ...
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... fortune to know . The distinguishing feature of his character was his singular love of truth , and his sense of its value and importance , even in the minutest points and questions of literary history . What the independence of English ...
... fortune to know . The distinguishing feature of his character was his singular love of truth , and his sense of its value and importance , even in the minutest points and questions of literary history . What the independence of English ...
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... fortune , to keep money lying idle , not because of their disaffection , but that they might have it available towards their escape or their main- tenance , if forced to fly from their homes or their country . Even Pope , whose genius ...
... fortune , to keep money lying idle , not because of their disaffection , but that they might have it available towards their escape or their main- tenance , if forced to fly from their homes or their country . Even Pope , whose genius ...
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... fortune - not a man accustomed to the luxuries or perhaps the elegancies of life ; he could and did -live on little , with a cheerful heart , -had saved sufficient , as he believed , for his own life and the lives of his children , for ...
... fortune - not a man accustomed to the luxuries or perhaps the elegancies of life ; he could and did -live on little , with a cheerful heart , -had saved sufficient , as he believed , for his own life and the lives of his children , for ...
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... fortune , that any one false step would be fatal . " But Pope's father , as we have shown , had secured to his son ... fortune may have required careful manage- ment ; but with his independent spirit , he was surely far above pecuniary ...
... fortune , that any one false step would be fatal . " But Pope's father , as we have shown , had secured to his son ... fortune may have required careful manage- ment ; but with his independent spirit , he was surely far above pecuniary ...
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Seite 244 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Seite 8 - If I should die," said I to myself, " I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.
Seite 125 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky...
Seite 139 - ... and lasting companion in the languor of age, in the quiet of privacy, when he departs, weary and disgusted, from the ostentatious, the volatile, and the vain. Of such a character, which the dull overlook and the gay despise, it was fit that the value should be made known, and the dignity established.
Seite 5 - I wish I could say Tom was any better. His identity presses upon me so all day that I am obliged to go out — and although I intended to have given some time to study alone, I am obliged to write and plunge into abstract images to ease myself of his countenance, his voice, and feebleness — so that I live now in a continual fever. It must be poisonous to life, although I feel well. Imagine " the hateful siege of contraries...
Seite 173 - A collection of the names of the merchants living in and about the city of London ; very usefull and necessary.
Seite 376 - These devils of Grub Street rogues, that write the Flying Post and Medley in one paper, will not be quiet. They are always mauling Lord Treasurer, Lord Bolingbroke, and me. We have the dog under prosecution, but Bolingbroke is not active enough ; but I hope to swinge him. He is a Scotch rogue, one Ridpath. They get out upon bail, and write on. We take them again, and get fresh bail; so it goes round.
Seite 102 - ... only by shining on. I am so far from es"teeming it any misfortune, that I congratulate you upon having your share in that which all the great men and all the good men that ever lived have had their part of — envy and calumny. To be uncensured and to be obscure is the same thing. You may conclude from what I here say, that it was never in my thoughts to have offered you my pen in any direct reply to such a critic, but only in some little raillery ; not in defence of you, but in contempt of him.
Seite 205 - Lepell) walked with me three or four hours by moonlight, and we met no creature of any quality but the king, who gave audience to the vicechamberlain, all alone, under the garden wall.
Seite 5 - ... to study alone, I am obliged to write and plunge into abstract images to ease myself of his countenance, his voice, and feebleness — so that I live now in a continual fever. It must be poisonous to life, although I feel well. Imagine " the hateful siege of contraries " — if I think of fame, of poetry, it seems a crime to me, and yet I must do so or suffer.