Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of His FriendsJ. Wright, 1737 - 306 Seiten |
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... say , he is not account- able for feveral paffages in the furreptitious edi- tions of those letters , which are fuch as no man of common sense would have publish'd himself . The errors of the prefs were almost innumerable , and b could ...
... say , he is not account- able for feveral paffages in the furreptitious edi- tions of those letters , which are fuch as no man of common sense would have publish'd himself . The errors of the prefs were almost innumerable , and b could ...
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... say ) in writing to me , fince you have always chofen the task of commending me : take but the other way , and I dare engage you will find none at all . As for my verses which you praise so much , I may truly say they have never been ...
... say ) in writing to me , fince you have always chofen the task of commending me : take but the other way , and I dare engage you will find none at all . As for my verses which you praise so much , I may truly say they have never been ...
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... say were as true apply'd to me , as it would be if apply'd to your felf , for feveral weighty reafons ; but for none fo much , as that I might be to you what you deserve ; whereas I can now be no more , than is confiftent with the small ...
... say were as true apply'd to me , as it would be if apply'd to your felf , for feveral weighty reafons ; but for none fo much , as that I might be to you what you deserve ; whereas I can now be no more , than is confiftent with the small ...
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... say my part has met with , it is to be attributed to what you was pleas'd to fay of me to the world ; which you do well to call your pro- phecy , fince whatever is faid in my favour must be a prediction of things that are not yet ; you ...
... say my part has met with , it is to be attributed to what you was pleas'd to fay of me to the world ; which you do well to call your pro- phecy , fince whatever is faid in my favour must be a prediction of things that are not yet ; you ...
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... say things that have never been faid before , as to express those best that have been said ofteneft ; and that writers in the case of borrowing from others , are like trees which of themselves would produce only one fort of fruit , but ...
... say things that have never been faid before , as to express those best that have been said ofteneft ; and that writers in the case of borrowing from others , are like trees which of themselves would produce only one fort of fruit , but ...
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Seite 262 - ... with agreeable hopes ; or melancholy with dejection, contemplative of the changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future: Whether returned a triumphant Whig, or a desponding Tory, equally all hail!
Seite 323 - I now lodge with) he has too much Wit, as well as Courage, to make a solid General; and if he escapes being banished by others, I fear he will banish himself.
Seite 266 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps...
Seite 203 - ... the common kinds, as cherries, apricots, peaches, &c. they produce oranges, limes, almonds, pomegranates, figs, water-melons, and many other fruits unknown to our climates, which lie every where open to the paflenger.
Seite 307 - Lordfhip : you, while your imagination is carrying you through every corner of the world, where you have or have not been, can at the fame time remember to do offices of favour and kindnefs to the meaneft of your friends ; and...
Seite 142 - ... tone) that it was eleven at night. All this was no ill preparation to the life I have led since, among those old...
Seite 204 - The inhabitants of this delicious isle, as they are without riches and honours, so are they without the vices and follies that attend them ; and were they but as much...
Seite 101 - ... an advantage not very common to young men, that the attractions of the world have not dazzled me very much...
Seite 142 - I wanted nothing but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. I conformed...
Seite 329 - Your notions of friendship are new to me : I believe every man is born with his quantum ; and he cannot give to one without robbing another.