Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of His FriendsJ. Wright, 1737 - 306 Seiten |
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... pleasures of feparate Spirits ; on the narrow Conceptions of men , the Vanity of human Knowledge , the Va- riety of Opinions in Religion , and the great Duty of Charity . LETTER XC . Confolations under Perfecution : the duty of mutual ...
... pleasures of feparate Spirits ; on the narrow Conceptions of men , the Vanity of human Knowledge , the Va- riety of Opinions in Religion , and the great Duty of Charity . LETTER XC . Confolations under Perfecution : the duty of mutual ...
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... pleasure ; but it was a high addition to it , to hear you at our very first meeting do juftice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden . I was not so hap- py as to know him : Virgilium tantum vidi : * The Author's Age then Sixteen . B 1 had I ...
... pleasure ; but it was a high addition to it , to hear you at our very first meeting do juftice to your dead friend Mr. Dryden . I was not so hap- py as to know him : Virgilium tantum vidi : * The Author's Age then Sixteen . B 1 had I ...
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... pleasure in them , it must be fuch as a man naturally takes in obferving the first shoots and bud- dings of a tree which he has raised himself : and ' tis impoffible they should be esteemed any otherwise , than as we value fruits for ...
... pleasure in them , it must be fuch as a man naturally takes in obferving the first shoots and bud- dings of a tree which he has raised himself : and ' tis impoffible they should be esteemed any otherwise , than as we value fruits for ...
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... pleasure ; there I can have you without rivals or difturbers ; without the noife of the loud , or the cenfure of the filent ; and would rather have you abufe me there with the truth , than at this distance with your compliment : fince ...
... pleasure ; there I can have you without rivals or difturbers ; without the noife of the loud , or the cenfure of the filent ; and would rather have you abufe me there with the truth , than at this distance with your compliment : fince ...
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... pleasure , and to judge the better , read Virgil's Eclogues and Spenfer's Calendar , at the fame time ; and I affure you I con- tinue the fame opinion I had always of them . By the little hints you take upon all occafions to improve ...
... pleasure , and to judge the better , read Virgil's Eclogues and Spenfer's Calendar , at the fame time ; and I affure you I con- tinue the fame opinion I had always of them . By the little hints you take upon all occafions to improve ...
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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.